Sound Quotes
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We were trying to get a sound on an instrument and I said it should sound robotic and he said, ‘You mean humanesque?’ I thought it was a good word and used it for the title.
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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.
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Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet.
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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.
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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.
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I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you're playing, everything else follows. It comes right out of the fingertips eventually - the physicality, the gestures, the walk - for me.
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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.
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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.
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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
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A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.
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Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, making a feature was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.
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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.
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Music proposes. Sound disposes.
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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.
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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.
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It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.
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Jeff Beck is probably my favorite and biggest influence on the guitar. Touring with him in 2010 was such a milestone. I used to show up early every day just to hear his sound check, which sometimes lasted an hour.
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The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.
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No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.
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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.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
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For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
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What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.
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I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that.
