Sound Quotes
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Somewhere outside there was the monotonous thud of a basketball on concrete, some lone player practicing free throws. A suburban sound carrying a ghostly resonance.
Alexandra Sokoloff
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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.
Stephanie Young Hwang
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I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.
Sonny John Moore
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I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.
Emily Lazar
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The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
Michael Foot
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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.
Celia Thaxter
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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
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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
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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
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You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.
Chris Johnson
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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
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I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.
Ali Banisadr
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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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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
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I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.
Brian Chippendale
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The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.
Tom Odell
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We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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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
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I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song make it sound like one. If it's a rock song make it sound like one, if it's a rap song take it off the record.
William Clark Green
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest; No mortal cares shall seize my breast; O may my heart in tune be found Like David's harp of solemn sound.
Isaac Watts
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
William Cowper
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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