Sounds Quotes
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I love the Juno – I haven’t mastered the JP-80 yet but the Juno is so easy to use. I love the arpeggiator. I love the sounds, they’re all the sounds I like to write with.
Isabella Summers Florence and the Machine
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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
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I guess the cool thing about the '80s is the kind of like adventure in terms of, you know, people were very willing to use sounds that were completely ridiculous or whatever. There was a lot of stuff happening in the '80s and it's all over the place. I guess that's probably the coolest thing for me and that's what I like about it. Just kind of that like, 'Oh, what's this sound? Oh that's wacky. Let's use it anyways.'
Emma Stone
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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
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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
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It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.
Michy Batshuayi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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
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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
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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
Vernon Reid
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52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.
Bryon Butler
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
Jules Verne
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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
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When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.
Ewan McGregor
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I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.
Arnold Adoff
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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
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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
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I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.
Cindy Chupack
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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