Sounds Quotes

• Immediately we were all like - this sounds like Won’t get fooled again ! And that was the track done really.

  

  Andrew Bell Beady Eye
  • Track
  • Sounds
  • Fooled

• Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Fighting
  • Sounds
  • Buzzer

• Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Sounds
  • Crack
  • Smells

• It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Law
  • Universe
  • Stupidity

• 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 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
  • Music
  • Working
  • Collaborating

• 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
  • Long
  • She
  • Pollyanna

• Just do what makes you happy....sounds simple, doesn't it ?

  

  Marie Avgeropoulos
  • Happy
  • Simple
  • Sounds

• I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Music
  • Themes
  • Harlem

• 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
  • Funny
  • Voice
  • Reasons

• No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • World
  • Sounds
  • Mockery

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

  

  Chloe Neill
  • Power
  • Words
  • Harry Potter

• We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Film
  • Sounds
  • Mix

• It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trapped by their circumstances. But it's critical to trust your heart... it's personally taken me 20 years to get there myself.

  

  Bridget Everett
  • Heart
  • Opportunity
  • Circumstances

• 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

• I make sounds while all these young musicians make jam, I make good sounds but they are always jamming, they don’t make good sound, they just jam.

  

  Majek Fashek
  • Musicians
  • Sounds
  • Jamming

• Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Figures
  • Breath

• To me, the world sounds warm and hushed.

  

  Carrie Fletcher
  • World
  • Warm
  • Hushed

• I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Voice
  • Sounds
  • Enlarge

• With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

  

  Akif Pirincci
  • World
  • Cat
  • Sounds

• As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Corny
  • Highs

• We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Birds
  • Woods
  • Meadow

• The scumbags are taking over the streets. I don't know what David Cameron and Gordon Brown are going to do about it. It all goes back to the Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher) years. It sounds like a cliché but that's when the rot set in.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Street
  • Cliche
  • Scumbags

• There's no excuse for having a mental or creative block in sound. You can just go out and collect things in the real world - they make the sound, not you. It's very restricting to always use a library for sound effects. It's much more interesting and freeing to go out and record new sounds because you never know what you're going to get.

  

  Gary Rydstrom
  • Record
  • Sounds
  • Effects

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