Sounds Quotes

• What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

  

  Lorde
  • Important
  • High
  • Cool

• When it comes down to vocals, I want to hear something that's going to be melodic. David's always had those animalistic instincts of making those gut sounds, or whatever you want to call it. But he's developed a really strong singing voice.

  

  Dan Donegan Disturbed
  • Voice
  • Vocals
  • melodic

• Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sounds
  • Title
  • Work Together

• The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Rock N Roll
  • Experiments
  • Beatles

• Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.

  

  Hayley Atwell
  • Sights
  • Business Cards
  • Documenting trips

• Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Important
  • Simplicity
  • Redundant

• 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
  • Sounds
  • Composers
  • Timbres

• 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
  • Relationship
  • Harmony
  • Sounds

• Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Justice
  • Meaning
  • Foolish

• [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
  • Idea
  • Confused
  • Invention

• 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
  • Record
  • Sounds
  • Guitar Band

• The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Sounds
  • Telecaster

• Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Beautiful
  • Belief
  • Sounds

• 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
  • Friendships
  • Lunch
  • Camaraderie

• Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

  

  George Bailey
  • Exciting
  • Sounds
  • Whistles

• The first Garbage record sounds bizarre, it's not a pristine sounding album. We ran everything through stomp boxes and through samplers and that definitely gave it a vibe.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Record
  • Album
  • Boxes

• Words have power? That sounds like you’re into some Harry Potter juju.

  

  Chloe Neill
  • Power
  • Words
  • Harry Potter

• I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Stuff
  • Sounds
  • Trip

• The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Composer

• 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
  • Problem
  • Sounds
  • Therapy

• 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
  • God
  • Hope
  • Pressure

• 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
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Textures

• We were totally confident that we would make it internationally. We had no money or instruments. We used cake tins or bottles with water in them - anything to make sounds.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Money
  • Confident
  • Bottles

• 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
  • Nature
  • Ways
  • Sounds

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