Sounds Quotes

• 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 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

• Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Fighting
  • Sounds
  • Buzzer

• If it sounds crap without effects- no effect in the world can help you.

  

  Anders Björler At the Gates
  • Help
  • Effect
  • Crap

• 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

• My voice is very special. People either love it or they're like, 'What's wrong with this girl? She looks 16 and sounds like a hooker!'

  

  Alessandra Torresani
  • People
  • She
  • Girl

• 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

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

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Sounds
  • Crack
  • Smells

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Happy
  • Innocent
  • Dove

• 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

• The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

  

  Michael Easton
  • Day
  • Matters
  • Smiles

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

  

  Marie Avgeropoulos
  • Happy
  • Simple
  • Sounds

• Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Musician
  • Sounds
  • Richard

• 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

• The forest made its little eating sounds.

  

  Adam Foulds
  • Eating
  • Forest
  • Sounds

• Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

  

  Carolyn See
  • World
  • Jazz
  • Sounds

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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