Sound Quotes
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I don’t really have any problems maintaining something human about the whole thing. I think my sound is pretty organic and human anyway so that’s not too much of a big deal for me.
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If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.
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I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.
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The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.
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The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it's everything. Madness isn't necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it's your child.
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"I promise you, if we did 'Fly Me To The Moon' it would still sound like ZZ Top. It's just the way we play."
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One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
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I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
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I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
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The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
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I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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I do think there was an active choice to do something small, as simple as it may sound, just so I didn't have to work on something for 16 months. The idea of two months, nice and contained, just about character, and no time in makeup was a thrill to me.
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I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.
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Both groups played progressive rock and even though the majority of the music was based on my compositions, the end result was really a group effort, especially in the arrangements. Both groups MAINHORSE and REFUGEE had a different identity, however MAINHORSE had a lead guitarist which made a big difference in the overall sound. We also had much more vocal arrangements in MAINHORSE. But the essence of the music was mine, in both groups.
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I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
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I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works...
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And the colors take me down It's no reason to be sad And you leave without a sound It's no reason to be glad...
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I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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I hate my voice, I sound like a girl. I am in fact a male.
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I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...
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Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
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I have a love of gear and pedals, from old pedals to new ones with new sounds. If I get depressed, I start looking for a certain type of pedal, learn the history, who and what it was made for, that kinda thing.
