Sound Quotes
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I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.
Sophie McShera
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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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Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
Charlie Flynn
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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 sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.
Paul Hirsch
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Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.
Ruggiero Ricci
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The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.
Adrienne Monnier
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But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.
Tim Bishop
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We were trying to get a sound on an instrument and I said it should sound robotic and he said, ‘You mean humanesque?’ I thought it was a good word and used it for the title.
Jack Green T. Rex
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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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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 played for my first church service when I was nine years old. I was sufficiently tall to be able to reach the pedals. The first hymn I played was Bringing in the Sheaves, and to this day I can play it in any key. I graduated to a Hammond organ a few years later when we went to another church, and then in high school came one of the loves of my life, the pipe organ. The sound of the pipe organ still gives me a thrill, whether soft strings or drowning out the orchestra as in Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Barbara Harbach
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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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Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.
Erin O'Connor
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It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
Nuno Bettencourt
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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
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When they court announcers say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.
Roger Federer
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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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Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.
Steven Millhauser
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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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I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that.
Avey Tare Animal Collective
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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
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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