Sounds Quotes

• I know it sounds strange but it’s true. I mean that you’re open to life. You’re open to being surprised. You’re open to being changed by life. Most of us lose that quality in our twenties. I don’t know how you’ve managed to hang on to it, but you have.” The music was loud, and the people were loud.

  

  Brian Morton
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• 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 played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my sounds were bathing them in all kinds of dissonance, consonance, resonance, and things like that.

  

  Charlemagne Palestine
  • People
  • Walking
  • Played

• 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

• People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

  

  Petra Haden
  • People
  • Sounds
  • Clean

• The raw and natural sounds of Aero music don't subtract from it's beauty, instead it creates a rich soundscape for the musician to create within.

  

  Jim O'Rourke Sonic Youth
  • Musician
  • Creates
  • Aero Music

• That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Genius
  • Sounds
  • Tail

• You have to stay focused because a lot of things will break your confidence. But if you stay focused and want it bad enough you can achieve. I know that sounds like a PBS special, but it's true, straight up.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Confidence
  • Sounds
  • PBS

• I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their problems in my office. I like to figure them out from afar, narrow a case down, figure it out, but it sounds like a lot of science.

  

  Kathleen Madigan
  • Science
  • Problems
  • Psychology

• 52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.

  

  Bryon Butler
  • Here
  • Sounds
  • Tonight

• If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!

  

  Gary Rydstrom
  • Sounds
  • Knew
  • Came From

• For dessert, Mom ordered us carob-chip cookies sweetened with fruit juice, which were about as delectable as that sounds. After we finished eating, we made sure to give the waitress all our food and dirty napkins so they could be composted.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Eating
  • Dessert
  • Composted

• Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Body
  • Christ
  • Glory

• I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.

  

  Melissa Ordway
  • Different
  • Growing
  • Making

• Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.

  

  Eddie Heywood
  • Piano
  • Truck
  • Give Up

• She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Time
  • Libraries
  • Spends

• Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

  

  Moira Kelly
  • Music
  • Except
  • Which

• Ohh! Wow!! Ohh!! Wow!! Those the only two words you know? Sounds like a dirty movie.

  

  Aya Nakahara
  • Movie
  • Words
  • Sounds

• I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Work
  • Way
  • Style

• One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Words
  • Director
  • Sounds

• Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of sounds followed by the seamlessly expressed melancholy of Chopin’s “Ballade no. 1.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Distance
  • Darkness
  • Melancholy

• How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Words
  • Sounds
  • Bridges

• I like textures and tones. Sometimes, it will be a melodic feedback from a song or something. I like warm, ethereal sounds. That kind of gets covered in every genre of music, so it could be a rock sample, jazz, soul, reggae.

  

  Alexander Spit
  • Song
  • Sounds
  • Tones

• We get real picky about frequencies. Put it on a tape, start on tape, and it's kind of locked to how it sounds. Which would have been a very interesting thing to have done, but we were very aware that we wanted a bizarre kind of production value on the record.

  

  Adam Faulkner
  • Interesting
  • Record
  • Sounds

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