Sounds Quotes

• Wardruna is a combination of old and new. I use historical instruments and new and electronic instruments and tools. I use drones and samples to build these huge sounds. Sometimes just a sound can trigger words or melodies. I don't have a romantic notion about the past; with Wardruna I wanted to create something new using something old.

  

  Einar Selvik
  • Romantic
  • Instruments
  • Combination

• I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.

  

  Sxip Shirey
  • Sounds
  • Bells
  • Associated

• 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

• 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'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

• 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

• 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

• The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

  

  Edgar Wilson Nye
  • Music
  • Sounds
  • Characteristic

• 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

• 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

• I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

  

  Arnold Adoff
  • Words
  • Turn
  • 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

• There’s a whole art to setting up the Hammond so that it just sounds great, and he knows what it is. I’m still learning.

  

  Steve Nieve
  • Learning
  • Sounds
  • Setting

• It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

  

  Michy Batshuayi
  • Happiness
  • Luck
  • Strange

• That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Voice
  • Sounds

• Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

  

  Vernon Reid
  • Ideas
  • Fiction
  • Sounds

• When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Mexican
  • French
  • Replace

• I am married and I have two kids now, and I love them all to death. So I am trying to put all that together and maintain the same pace I've been keeping. But really, I relish what we do. A year and a half sounds like a cakewalk to me.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Death
  • I Love
  • Married

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

  

  Bryon Butler
  • Here
  • Sounds
  • Tonight

• 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

• It has come quickly, this crushing, industrial love of paradise. The pervert-free, less-trammeled, hundred-mile-view days were little more than two decades past, not so very long ago. Yet already my own history sounds like another country.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Love
  • History
  • Paradise

• There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.

  

  Cindy Chupack
  • Like
  • Things
  • Admit

• I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

  

  John Prine
  • Friend
  • Voice
  • Finally

• Sometimes when you belt, it kinda makes the song more dramatic than it really needs to be. There are certain songs that you hear, and you're like, 'Wow, he's singing about his girlfriend, but he sounds kinda mad the way he's yelling, 'You're so pretty!''

  

  Walker Hayes
  • Sometimes
  • Singing
  • Certain

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