Sound Quotes
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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'.
William Shakespeare
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Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet.
Buddy Bolden
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Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.
Erykah Badu
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Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.
Claude Simon
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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.
Nigel Wright Shakatak
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And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.
Tom Stoppard
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Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.
Rachel Caine
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I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.
Chris Johnson
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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
Diogenes
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I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem.
Barack Obama
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I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.
Pablo Neruda
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Hey, sexy. Why haven’t you called?” The cooing sound came from behind me, and I glanced back over my shoulder to see a familiar-looking brunette. “Because I’m the asshole who never calls,” I replied with a wink.
Abbi Glines
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The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.
Catherine Helen Spence
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Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.
C. S. Lewis
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.
Tom Odell
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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Norton Juster
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The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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
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When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.
Bernard Parmegiani
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I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.
Stephanie Young Hwang
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No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.
Celia Thaxter
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You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.
J. I. Packer
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A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe