Sound Quotes
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
Kara Swisher
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Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and that's very exciting. Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else.
Flume
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Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'
Usher
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This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
Olivia Colman
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I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
Jack Kevorkian
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Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.
Neil Peart
Rush
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There were not very many girls in rock n' roll together with men that had a heavy rock sound as well as a more acoustic sound like Heart.
Nancy Wilson
Heart
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There's been a progression in my sound.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.
Tom Lehrer
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Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
Wayne Shorter
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I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.
Lewis Capaldi
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
Yo-Yo Ma
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
Damon Wayans, Jr.
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I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.
Oscar Isaac
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We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
J. C. Ryle
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
Nathan Lane
