Sound Quotes
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
C. C. H. Pounder
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You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.
Quavo Migos
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My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.
Carl Barron
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If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.
Vincent Van Gogh
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When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.
Arthur Chu
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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Ford Frick -
We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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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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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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He almost adds a Chet-like sound to it.
Chet Baker
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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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I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
Naima Adedapo
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Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.
L.A. Reid
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It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.
Nelly Mazloum
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I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.
Steve Diggle Buzzcocks
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The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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We were being put somewhere interesting from being involved with analog, to working with digital. Those two worlds just collided and it felt great! That was probably the key inspiration in terms of me going on to not just making dub plates for my sound, but doing the unobvious and "selling out" to the masses. I subsequently got a record deal because of that.
Jazzie B Soul II Soul
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The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.
Emma Orczy
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Everyone has said I got my own sound.
Lil Baby
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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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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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As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.
Rachel Nichols
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I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!
Kaley Cuoco
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
Ira Glass