Sound Quotes
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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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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Thomas Hardy
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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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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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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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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 working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to you, "Why did you use a harmonium?" Or "What is that ringing sound that occurs here?" The questions are always "What does that song mean?" or "What were you trying to say here?"
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Democrats don't sound united.
Susan Davis
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'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
William James
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Father of four. I like the sound of that.
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
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Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.
Brian Chippendale
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For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.
Michael Learned
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When he comes around. Do not tell him nothing. Do not make a sound. Cos if he knows we're there he might tear his heart out. And beat us to death with it.
Pete Yorn
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The sound of loneliness makes me happier.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.
Mike Lowry
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I open my mouth. I want o say: I'm breaking, and i need someone to hold me together. But no sound comes out.
Beth Revis
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Motown wasn't just pioneering a sound but a cultural dynamic.
Suzanne de Passe
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Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.
Nelly Mazloum
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There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'
Seth MacFarlane
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
William Faulkner
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Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?
Sherman Alexie
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Aqualung is one that my brother turned me onto. It wasn't that hard-rocking, but Martin Barre had a really good sound. He knew what he was doing.
James Hetfield Metallica
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Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.
Haruki Murakami