Sound Quotes
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For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.
Annea Lockwood
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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'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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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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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 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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My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
Josh Malerman
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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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Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and you always wish that you had more sympathy.
Ben Burtt
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I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.
Michael Caine
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There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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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 never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
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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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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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Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.
Nick Carter
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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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Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
Akiva Goldsman
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I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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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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A lot of people forget that today. They come to the point where you walk on a set and the first thing you know you're looking at the sound man and you're saying to yourself, "How the hell can they get any sound when nobody is talking!" They get all mumbly. You can't make out what they're saying! And you're 6 feet away from them! Whereas in the old-time movies, you hear them, you understand every word they're saying, and you didn't have to put on your loudspeaker.
Ernest Borgnine
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Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.
Melvin Van Peebles
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When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.
Bertrand Bonello