Sound Quotes
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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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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
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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.
Wumen Huikai
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The world did have too many words. The sound of the rain was all we needed.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?
Carroll O'Connor
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It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
Eileen Atkins
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I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.
Steve Martin
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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
Seneca the Younger
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Girls..... really um nah, I always just liked the sound of an electric guitar.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
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I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.
John Prine
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When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.
Cecilia Bartoli
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Most sound people don't get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.
Ben Burtt
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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
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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
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I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.
Meg White The White Stripes
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For the first time in forever, he'll wake up to a new beagle's bark every motning, with a feeling that the world is all right and everyone he cares about is safe and sound.
Ben Sherwood
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I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.
Erroll Garner
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Stern Winter loves a dirge – like sound.
William Wordsworth
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I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.
Sxip Shirey
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I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.
Tobias Smollett
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Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.
Victoria Legrand Beach House
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This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.
Torrie Wilson
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My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.
Nicole Trunfio
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When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
Susanna Kaysen