Sound Quotes

• And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Dream
  • Sea
  • Ship

• There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely - it's really kind of primal.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Sound
  • Bands
  • All-girl

• I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

  

  Artie Lange
  • College
  • Sound
  • Longshoreman

• It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Joy
  • Stupid
  • Grateful

• “The sound of the human voice is the best of nature but only if it comes out from the feelings.”

  

  Giovanni Morassutti
  • Feelings
  • Voice
  • Sound

• Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

  

  Yanni
  • Emotional
  • Painting
  • Color

• I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.

  

  Cold Cave
  • Music
  • Love
  • Certain

• When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking. Or mind-boggling. I'll be trying to figure it out, but once I've got it figured out I'll be like, I know this; I know where this came from. I think art is most interesting when the intention is not clear.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Interesting
  • Records
  • Intention

• Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Why
  • High

• I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy...

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Bach

• I hate my voice, I sound like a girl. I am in fact a male.

  

  Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
  • Girl
  • Hate
  • Voice

• The rush of creating sounds and mixing sounds is always an interesting challenge, especially for someone like me, who doesn't know about sound.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • Interesting
  • Challenges
  • Creating

• Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Music
  • Today
  • Universe

• Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts.

  

  Willigis Jäger
  • Feelings
  • Mystical
  • Reflecting

• The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: “Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?” A thousand. None of them good enough.

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Good
  • Think
  • Voice

• You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sound
  • Values
  • Retrospect

• It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Listening
  • Summer
  • Forest

• 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.

  

  Patrick Moraz The Moody Blues
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Guitarist

• This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet. If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in. I love foot rubs, too. I'll take one whenever I can.

  

  Torrie Wilson
  • Proud
  • Feet
  • Compliment

• "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."

  

  Dusty Hill ZZ Top
  • Play
  • Sound

• The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Important
  • Sound
  • Exactitude

• I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Taken
  • Spirit
  • Sound

• Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

  

  Abraham Coles
  • Sound
  • Muse
  • Cave

• The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Silence
  • Sound
  • Theater

1

...

19

20

21

22

23

...

38

previous

next