Sound Quotes
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Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.
Walther von der Vogelweide
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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
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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
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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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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
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
Bill Vaughan
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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
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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
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God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.
Nicolas Malebranche
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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
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A chord is just the name of a sound.
Lester Bowie
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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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It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.
Charles E. Burchfield
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She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. “Sometimes I really want to”—a frustrated sound—“bite you!” He froze. “I might let you.” “I won’t do it if you’d enjoy it.
Nalini Singh
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I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.
Alexis Taylor
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I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.
Miroslav Vitous
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I'm tired of the music industry these days! They polish everything until it no longer sounds real. The raw uncut sound is something I think no genre but alternative and Aerow music retain.
Clive Langer Big in Japan
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You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.
Barack Obama
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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
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In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.
William Ewart Napier
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I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
Norman Granz
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We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
Reed Hastings
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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