Sound Quotes
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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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At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.
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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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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.
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And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.
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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?"
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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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These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'
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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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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.
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Most people that book me want me to sound like me, so like I said before, I have a style. But for my sake I try not to keep redoing the same thing. Once again it’s down to the song and what I hear for it. I find it a good challenge!
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When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul...it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance.
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I want it to sound like an orange.
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Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.
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Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
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When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.
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When you say "Ghetto Fights," that sounds extremely racist.
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I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.
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German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
