Sounds Quotes
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The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.
Wendy Carlos
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My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally I leave them that way because I like those imperfections.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down -
We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we started out and we've been there. The sounds on this record are really exciting and expressive of the lyrics and the music.
Tim Rice-Oxley Keane -
It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Subjected to this flood of unfamiliar sounds, Baker and his classmates soon found themselves trying to stay afloat in the same boat. Friendships and camaraderie quickly grew, ... We did everything together: lunch, studying, dinner and then socializing.
Cheryl Baker Bucks Fizz -
But I felt everything right on top of me, breath against breath. I was tired, tired, tired. I said it loudly but voices die quickly, they seem alive in the bottom of the throat and yet, if articulated, they are already spent sounds.
Elena Ferrante -
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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If it sounds crap without effects- no effect in the world can help you.
Anders Björler At the Gates -
Singer-songwriter is a very broad term and I want to make music that’s grounded in guitar and vocals but adding cool production can really transform a track. What’s most important to me is making sure my music sounds unique, making sure it doesn’t really perfectly fit into the singer-songwriter or pop genre.
Noah Kahan -
The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.
Ariel Pink -
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.
W. Daniel Hillis -
The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
Alan Hovhaness -
The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.
Tones and I
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It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.
Apolo Ohno -
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day -
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.
George Eliot -
I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.
Eleanor Porter -
Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.
Albert Einstein -
Immediately we were all like - this sounds like Won’t get fooled again ! And that was the track done really.
Andrew Bell Beady Eye
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What's funny about my voice is, no matter what I sing, I sound like I'm really sad. I don't even mean to do it, it's just something my voice has. I think that's one of the reasons why Okkervil has been dubbed as really mopey - I have this tone to my voice that sounds like that.
Will Sheff Okkervil River -
Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
Rudyard Kipling -
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
Mariah Carey -
The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.
Robbie Williams Take That