Sounds Quotes

• 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

• Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

  

  Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick
  • Sounds
  • Crap

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

  

  Aya Nakahara
  • Movie
  • Words
  • Sounds

• I have never told a lie or modulated my natural voice... I can't help what people think sounds male or female.

  

  Alice Hastings Bradley
  • Help
  • Voice
  • Sounds

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

  

  Moira Kelly
  • Music
  • Except
  • Which

• The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Study
  • Victim
  • Sounds

• 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

• The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Song
  • Sounds
  • Send

• 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

• 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

• 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're not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We're pretty much making it up as we go as far as the sounds we're creating. Oftentimes, the song will be inspired by just a certain kind of block of sound that somebody creates.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Inspired
  • Make
  • Chords

• 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

• 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

• There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video game, a movie, or a TV show: I always try to set up my sounds and my themes. I really try to stay with the characters and do the storytelling through the music.

  

  Ramin Djawadi
  • Great
  • Development
  • Approach

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Petra Haden
  • People
  • Sounds
  • Clean

• 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

• 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

• Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Music
  • Human Beings
  • Sounds

• 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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