I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
~By Abigail Adams ~
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
~By Eduard Hanslick ~
The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.
~By Rob Paulsen ~
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
~By Sam Phillips ~
If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
~By Jan Garbarek ~
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.
~By Marc Bolan ~
The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex.
~By Tony Conrad ~
Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.
~By Fred Frith ~
For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.
~By Mick Ronson ~
A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?
~By Johannes Rau ~
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.
~By Stanley Clarke ~
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
~By Merle Haggard ~
You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.
~By Steve Lacy ~
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 ~
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.
~By Brian Perkins ~
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
~By William Shakespeare ~
As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
~By Damon Albarn ~
Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.
~By Tom Glazer ~
You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.
~By Glynis Johns ~
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
~By John Bonham ~
I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.
~By Mike Gordon ~
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
~By Conor Oberst ~
I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.
~By Chris Bailey ~
We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.
~By John Hull ~
I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
~By Brian Eno ~
Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.
~By Moira Kelly ~
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
~By Mary Pickford ~
I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
~By Shirley Manson ~
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
~By Og Mandino ~
Free love sounds great.
~By Laura Prepon ~
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
~By Alexander Pope ~
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
~By Warren Beatty ~
Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.
~By Don Knotts ~
To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
I never liked mellow sounding guitar.
~By Tom Verlaine ~
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.
~By Herb Alpert ~
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.
~By Jonathan Kellerman ~
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 ~
I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.
~By Spencer Abraham ~
If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If it's marketed right, you'll buy it. But... if it's real, you'll feel it.
~By Kid Rock ~
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
~By Lady Bird Johnson ~
To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
~By Henry Cantwell Wallace ~
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
~By John Eaton ~
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
~By Richard Wright ~
I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.
~By Matt Cameron ~
This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.
~By John Goodman ~
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
~By Kelly Osbourne ~
This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument.
~By Mike Gordon ~
I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.
~By Rocky Marciano ~
I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.
~By Evel Knievel ~
When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
~By Abu Bakr ~
I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.
~By Jean O'Leary ~
It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
~By Taryn Manning ~
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.
~By Connie Chung ~
I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.
~By Mary Timony ~
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
~By Peter Krause ~
I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.
~By Rider Strong ~
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
~By Brian Eno ~
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
~By Matt Cameron ~
Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.
~By Luc Ferrari ~
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
~By Chick Corea ~
The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills.
~By Robert Manning ~
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
~By Max Frisch ~
I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks.
~By Jason Marsden ~
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
~By Jimmy Smith ~
We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.
~By Francis Maude ~
I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.
~By Ana Gasteyer ~
People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.
~By Emmanuelle Beart ~
When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.
~By Juan Williams ~
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
~By Zoltan Kodaly ~
We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.
~By Christina Romer ~
I take sounds and change them into words.
~By Brian Eno ~
The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.
~By Tom Chapin ~
The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
~By Gary Wright ~
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 ~
And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
~By Dan Hicks ~
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.
~By Neville Marriner ~
My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job.
~By Bobby Heenan ~
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'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.
~By Bonnie Blair ~
I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.
~By Michael McKean ~
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