Sound Quotes

• We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Wanted

• I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Taken
  • Spirit
  • Sound

• A chord is just the name of a sound.

  

  Lester Bowie
  • Sound
  • Chord

• How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

  

  William Blake
  • Ancient
  • Enjoyed
  • Bards

• I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

  

  William Alexander Percy
  • Infinity
  • Shouting
  • Dazed

• The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Affections

• 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

• I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Sound
  • Littles
  • Festivals

• No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Laughter
  • Clear
  • Salute

• 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
  • Sound
  • Times
  • Paragraph

• 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

• The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Brain
  • Sea

• 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

• If it sounds good to me and I hate my voice, so if I'm willing to listen to my voice over and over again, it's a hit. Guaranteed it'll be a hit.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Hate
  • Voice
  • Sound

• It takes some silence to make sound.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Silence
  • Sound

• 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 actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Thinking
  • Matter
  • Awful

• We’re a rock band and we don’t claim to be anything else but we do like to try new things. Having electronics in the sound is more to do with texture and depth, were constantly doing harmony guitar and overdubs so we’d though we should try it to that with electronics and have a more distinct type of sound.

  

  Jerry Horton Papa Roach
  • Guitar
  • Rock Band
  • Overdubs

• 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

• 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.

  

  Wangechi Mutu
  • America
  • Sound
  • Bites

• I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.

  

  Sophie McShera
  • Feels
  • Obsessed
  • Nostalgic

• 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.

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Good
  • Think
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Catherine Helen Spence
  • Principles
  • Resources
  • Climate

• There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • American
  • Healthy
  • Bed

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