Sounded Quotes

• When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Dad

• She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Country
  • Picture
  • English

• I wanted to grow as a songwriter and talk about more things … about where we are in the world today, the tension, how divided we are as a country. It kind of felt like I was dumping a bunch of subject matter together and I made it in New Orleans so it sounded like Gumbo to me.

  

  PJ Morton Maroon 5
  • Grow
  • Songwriter
  • New Orleans

• Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Wife
  • Exciting
  • Bandit

• Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Awake
  • Arise
  • Sounded

• It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed. It sounded like a revolution. It sounded like hope.

  

  Alex Scarrow
  • Hope
  • Revolution
  • Sounded

• Everyone sounded the same when they died.

  

  Sarah J. Maas
  • Died
  • Sounded