Sound Quotes

• I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

  

  Mira Nair
  • Important
  • Stories
  • Dimensions

• I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Amazing
  • Sound

• 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
  • Audience
  • Accepting
  • Track

• I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.

  

  Domenica Costa
  • Perfect
  • Crafts
  • Come Up

• This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.

  

  Torrie Wilson
  • Proud
  • Feet
  • Lame

• I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.

  

  William Cowper
  • Humanity
  • Journey
  • Sweet

• As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Sound
  • Chocolate
  • Taste

• On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.

  

  Russell Peters
  • House
  • Honest
  • Accents

• 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
  • Quality
  • Corny
  • Residents

• It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."

  

  Carlos Alomar
  • Individual
  • Experiments
  • Devices

• I feel like a lot of the stuff coming out right now just feels really inauthentic to me. But apparently, people don't seem to see through it. And this makes me sound bitter, but it's just my perspective. I'm not bitter. I just feel like there's a lot of stuff that doesn't feel like it's coming from a place of any sort of integrity. It just doesn't feel like it's coming from the heart, basically. It just feels like it's being produced because people know it's a formula that will work, or it's easily digestible and fun to look at.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Work
  • Integrity
  • Stuff

• If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

  

  Michael P. Anderson
  • Different
  • Things
  • Challenges

• If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Way
  • Feelings
  • Emotional

• Neil Young, who isn't really evident when you listen to my music, is probably my favorite of the legends, besides Dylan. They're all a huge influence on me. For me, just following rock history and watching Darkness On the Edge of Town and realizing that's it's okay to be obsessed with a snare sound because Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with a snare sound.

  

  Adam Granduciel
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Influence

• Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Band
  • Average
  • Drummer

• Girls..... really um nah, I always just liked the sound of an electric guitar.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Sound
  • Guitar
  • Girls

• Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

  

  Rue McClanahan
  • Interesting
  • Sex
  • Awful

• The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again.

  

  Art Pepper
  • Sound
  • Listen
  • Imitated

• And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

  

  Plato
  • Artist
  • Knowing
  • Representations

• I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

  

  Morley Callaghan
  • Thinking
  • Stories
  • Identity

• If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Truth
  • Sound

• When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Should

• Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

  

  Dana Rosemary Scallon
  • Mother
  • Eye
  • Voice

• I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Songs
  • Tell
  • Proponents

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