Sound Quotes
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In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.
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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.
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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.
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For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.
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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?
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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
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Phil left such an incredible legacy of music, there's hours of great stuff. We're gonna play all the hits and some classic album tracks. We got together to play, and it didn't sound too bad. In fact it sounded great and it was a lot of fun.
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If people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then.
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I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.
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I liked the sound of the word 'snail' every time I said it; the word was as small and simple as the creature itself.
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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.'
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One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
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Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects that are added, there's going to be sound effects, there's going to be so much stuff that happens between this point and that finished product that it just ruins the illusion for me.
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Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
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Motown wasn't just pioneering a sound but a cultural dynamic.
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The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
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It's going to sound like brown-nosing, but I love 'Parks & Rec.'
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It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.
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In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.
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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.
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Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.
