Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.
~By Jon Anderson ~
If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
~By Mary McAleese ~
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
~By Derek Walcott ~
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
~By William Faulkner ~
I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
~By Leonard Slatkin ~
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
~By Gavin Bryars ~
He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.
~By Brittany Snow ~
I take sounds and change them into words.
~By Brian Eno ~
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
~By Ford Frick ~
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.
~By Jon Ronson ~
It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
~By Aaron Spelling ~
Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?
~By Brett Somers ~
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.
~By Christine McVie ~
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.
~By Dick York ~
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
~By Jim Elliot ~
A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.
~By Melanie Chisholm ~
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
~By Temple Grandin ~
Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
~By Beth Gibbons ~
They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
~By Macaulay Culkin ~
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
~By Alan Dundes ~
If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
~By Branford Marsalis ~
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.
~By Stijn Streuvels ~
Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.
~By Alicia Witt ~
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
~By Ikue Mori ~
It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
~By Stephen Baker ~
Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
~By Utada Hikaru ~
Sounds always fascinated me.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.
~By Norah Jones ~
We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
~By Cynthia Weil ~
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
~By Tori Amos ~
I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
~By Ray Manzarek ~
That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.
~By Kaley Cuoco ~
That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.
~By Alan Vega ~
Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.
~By Mark White ~
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
~By Fred Frith ~
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.
~By Chely Wright ~
Music is organized sound.
~By Edgard Varese ~
I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
~By Joss Whedon ~
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.
~By Peter Cushing ~
When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.
~By Susan Estrich ~
Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
~By Quincy Jones ~
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
~By Paul Dirac ~
I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.
~By Robert Carlyle ~
We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.
~By Daniel Johns ~
I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
~By Eric Clapton ~
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
~By Xun Zi ~
My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
~By Melissa Manchester ~
In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
~By Lou Reed ~
When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.
~By Mike Shinoda ~
For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.
~By Robert Welch ~
The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
~By Andy Rooney ~
I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
~By Nancy Sinatra ~
No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.
~By Craig Stevens ~
The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
~By George Tenet ~
Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.
~By David Tudor ~
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.
~By Matt Cameron ~
From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.
~By Richard Hooker ~
People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
~By Plato ~
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
~By Chick Corea ~
Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!
~By Jonathan Richman ~
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
~By Rita Dove ~
Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
~By Sinbad ~
Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.
~By Emmylou Harris ~
I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.
~By Jose Carreras ~
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
~By Alan Parsons ~
Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
~By Candace Bushnell ~
I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.
~By Steve Brown ~
I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.
~By Graham Nash ~
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
~By Giorgio Moroder ~
There is just a major difference between the sound of analog tape and digital tape.
~By Kenny W. Shepherd ~
It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
~By Eliot Spitzer ~
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
~By Milan Kundera ~
Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.
~By Michael Davis ~
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
~By Dick Dale ~
When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.
~By Charles D. Broad ~
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
~By Francis Maude ~
In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
~By Lucinda Williams ~
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
~By Dogen ~
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
~By Sun Tzu ~
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
~By Emily Carr ~
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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