Sound Quotes
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
Herodotus
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If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don’t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.
Etgar Keret
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Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.
Ash Koosha
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It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.
Reynolds Price
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I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.
Carrie-Anne Moss
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Listen. With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall.
Adelaide Crapsey
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For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"
Ryan Adams
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It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.
Ernest Gaines
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If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
Casey Abrams
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By studying sound, you are studying breath.
Arnold Jacobs
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Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
Thomas Sowell
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Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
Norton Juster
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Every artist has a very particular sound and style.
Ali Shirazinia
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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
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Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
William Cowper
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It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.
Michael Pitt
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Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.
Thomas Kuhn
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I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.
Shirley Henderson
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Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later.
Sean Connery