Sound Quotes
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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Satchel Paige -
The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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By studying sound, you are studying breath.
Arnold Jacobs -
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 -
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 -
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 -
If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
I think Thurston's and my weird tunings lent Sonic Youth a very different sound from the get-go. In the band's 30 years - aside from covers - there are maybe two or three songs we wrote using traditional tuning.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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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 -
I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.
Mika Brzezinski -
Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.
Emily Dickinson -
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 -
Girls..... really um nah, I always just liked the sound of an electric guitar.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
Turn the lights on as we fall into the night. Keep your eyes shut. Make your night start. Dance into the sound of life.
Alle Farben
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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 -
The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.
Celia Thaxter -
As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.
Willow Smith -
I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.
Sonny John Moore -
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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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My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.
Eudora Welty -
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
James Hetfield Metallica -
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
Merle Haggard -
I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz. And I did everything to really base it on my speaking voice and to just not try to make it sound pretty.
Cecile McLorin Salvant