Sound Quotes

• 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.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Artist
  • Half
  • Albums

• 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

• The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Career
  • Inspiration
  • Musical

• Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Play
  • Difficult
  • Levels

• Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Courage
  • Feet
  • Lilies

• 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

• 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
  • Important
  • Feels
  • Be You

• Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts.

  

  Willigis Jäger
  • Feelings
  • Mystical
  • Reflecting

• You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Worst
  • Critics
  • Mics

• The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Realizing

• After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

  

  Erle Stanley Gardner
  • Certain
  • Principles
  • Salesmanship

• 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

• If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.

  

  Gary Rydstrom
  • Sound
  • Filmmaking
  • Evangelizing

• There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.

  

  Anna Meredith
  • Sound
  • Performance
  • Laptop

• Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!

  

  Kabir
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Truth

• 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

• I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Dying

• I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Being
  • Interested
  • Making

• I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it to have a purpose.

  

  Matthew "Matt" Montgomery Amen
  • Purpose
  • Sound
  • Heavy

• 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

• This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet. If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in. I love foot rubs, too. I'll take one whenever I can.

  

  Torrie Wilson
  • Proud
  • Feet
  • Compliment

• 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.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Death
  • Looks
  • Fate

• No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.

  

  Jhene Aiko
  • Music
  • Love
  • Sound

• Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Sorrow
  • Planets
  • Hopeless

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