Sound Quotes

• I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Artist

• I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Think
  • English

• Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Detail

• I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Pretty
  • Human
  • Voice

• I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• We’re not an angsty band at all, so we’re not actively looking for that sound.

  

  Nathan Connolly Snow Patrol
  • Band
  • Sound
  • Looking

• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • King
  • Sound

• It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Digital

• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Like
  • Means

• When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Political
  • Me
  • Sound

• It's all about sound. It's that simple.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • About

• From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Always
  • Sound
  • Studio

• The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Good
  • Music
  • Sound

• [T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Democracy
  • Sound

• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Me

• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hand
  • Stone
  • Coincidence

• As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Everyone

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Classes
  • Accent
  • Eliminate

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Music is organized sound.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Organized

• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Want

• I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Sound
  • Security

• I miss Kentucky, I miss the sound of the cicadas, and I want to come back from time to time.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Kentucky
  • Time to Time

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