Sound Quotes
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On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.
Róisín Murphy
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The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
Mike Figgis
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Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
Frederic Chopin
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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
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No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.
Celia Thaxter
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Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet.
Buddy Bolden
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One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
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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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I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.
Martin Luther
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.
Riley Keough
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It's exactly the same thing, just moved around, making it sound nice.
Jennifer Jones
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Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.
Alex Scally Beach House
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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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Once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.
Margery Allingham
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She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.
P. C. Cast
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The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.
Rene Descartes
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I can’t afford to be tap-dancing between dynamics in the songs. So when I switch on the clean on the same amp, with the same guitar and start strumming something, it’s the sound I want to hear.
Sébastien Lefebvre Simple Plan
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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."
Dusty Hill ZZ Top
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It makes you feel really comfortable when someone is like, I'm not going to touch what you're doing. Do what you do and I'll put it out, but as opposed to sticking it out in Dublin and in one shop in London, it's going to go all over the world and you'll have the backing of a PR team and whatever else you need. It was like, cool, that sounds like the right move.
Adam Faulkner
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There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
Sarah Dessen
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I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.
Gazzy Garcia
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I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.
Margery Allingham