Sound Quotes
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I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter.
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Rehearsal's mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.
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I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.
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I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'
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He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didn’t sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
