Sound Quotes
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I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.
Alexis Taylor
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O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.
Charles Robert Maturin
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I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
Herb Alpert
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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
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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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And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem.
Barack Obama
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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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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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The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.
Steve Berlin Los Lobos
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I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my favorite point is it stores quietly in very subtle places in your home .
Steven Spielberg
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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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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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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
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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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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
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It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
Merle Haggard
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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
William Christopher Handy
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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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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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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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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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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