Sound Quotes

• Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

  

  George Ella Lyon
  • Chairs
  • Hello
  • Rocking

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

  

  Theophrastus
  • Cures
  • Flutes
  • Gout

• 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
  • World
  • Team
  • Sound

• 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
  • Perfection
  • Medicine
  • Doctor

• One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would suddenly hear sounds. It was like a phenomenon, like the Aurora Borealis -- maybe. The sounds of men playing would be so clear, but we wouldn't be sure where they were coming from. So we'd start trotting, start running-- 'It's this way! It's this way!' -- And sometimes, after running for a while, you'd find you'd be nowhere near that music. But that music could come on you any time like that. The city was full of the sounds of music.

  

  Danny Barker
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Sometimes

• They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.

  

  Erik Naggum
  • Window
  • Impress
  • Appliances

• 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

• If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • People
  • Play
  • Sound

• 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
  • House
  • Problem
  • Driving

• We were just doing what we loved, and that was it really. We just happened to come along at the right time. We wrote melodic but very hooky tunes, and that plays a big role in our sound.

  

  Kevin Saunderson
  • Sound
  • Melodies
  • Right Time

• I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Hope

• And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Wind
  • Lasts
  • Heard

• I’ve come to realize that the playing and the guitar/pickup combination are what you need to pay attention to when looking for that type of sound.

  

  Sébastien Lefebvre Simple Plan
  • Guitar
  • Combination
  • Pickup

• Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Sound
  • Champion
  • Page

• 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

• A lot of people say I got my own sound. I ain't never really got no comparisons. When people hear my music, they be like, 'He got his own lil sound.'

  

  Roddy Ricch
  • Sound
  • Own
  • Comparisons

• I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Sound
  • Record
  • Rule

• Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

  

  Gary Rydstrom
  • Change
  • Sound
  • Building

• People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

  

  Diogenes
  • People
  • Sound
  • Musical Instruments

• 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
  • World
  • Heart
  • Understand

• The breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!

  

  Anne Bosworth Greene
  • Sound
  • Horizon
  • Rat

• Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

  

  Jules Shear
  • Sound
  • Gift
  • Imagined

• Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Work
  • Want
  • Records

• The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Sound

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