Sound Quotes

• Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • Money
  • Society
  • Sound

• And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

  

  Plato
  • Character
  • Community
  • Advantage

• 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
  • Good
  • Food
  • Eyes

• Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.

  

  Kygo
  • Inspiration
  • Track
  • Piano

• I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Perfect
  • Sound
  • Albums

• There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Differences

• I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Mind
  • Wanted
  • Joints

• The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Cures
  • Flutes
  • Gout

• When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound or what it's going to be or if people are going to like it.

  

  AJ Michalka
  • Artist
  • Sound
  • Confident

• Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.

  

  Nicholas Payton
  • Sound
  • Listen
  • Real Music

• The main idea of the album was to translate different styles with just one sound. It was really hard to do that. It’s exactly the same when you see a guy – he’s one guy but he can have several different emotions. That’s the best way to explain it.

  

  Mike Levy
  • Different
  • Idea
  • Emotions

• I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

  

  Michael Wilbon
  • Want
  • Sound
  • Grumpy

• I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.

  

  Gazzy Garcia
  • Different
  • Sound

• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

  

  William Cowper
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sympathy

• I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

  

  Alexis Taylor
  • Sound
  • Cheap
  • Copied

• A chord is just the name of a sound.

  

  Lester Bowie
  • Sound
  • Chord

• You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Silence

• We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Sound
  • Yourselves
  • Overthinking

• I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

  

  Michael McKean
  • Kind
  • Style
  • Ears

• 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

• Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Learning
  • Boy
  • Sound

• Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Running
  • Stuff
  • Littles

• Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets from the body of your music. Remember: the original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.

  

  David Torn
  • Remember
  • Moments
  • Guitar

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