The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I think I sound like Barry White.
~By Gloria Gaynor ~
I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
~By Don Van Vliet ~
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.
~By Robert Ripley ~
Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.
~By Les Claypool ~
After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
~By David Talbot ~
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
~By James Thurber ~
I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.
~By Tim McGraw ~
We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
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 ~
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
~By Nigel Short ~
My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.
~By Alex Campbell ~
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 ~
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
~By J. P. Morgan ~
The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again.
~By Tia Carrere ~
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
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 ~
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
~By Vanilla Ice ~
Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.
~By Al Roker ~
He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.
~By Tom Kenny ~
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.
~By Dan Hawkins ~
You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
~By Johnny Rotten ~
Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.
~By Moira Kelly ~
Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.
~By Richard Morris ~
The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.
~By Jon Kyl ~
It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.
~By Steve Lacy ~
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?
~By Paul Vixie ~
As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.
~By John Dykstra ~
These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
~By Aulis Sallinen ~
The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
~By Bill Laswell ~
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
~By John Mahoney ~
I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.
~By Claire Danes ~
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
~By Lee Konitz ~
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
~By Ruth Brown ~
Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
~By Nancy Cartwright ~
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
~By Barry White ~
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
~By Luc Ferrari ~
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
~By Gabriel Byrne ~
It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.
~By Robbie Fowler ~
So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.
~By Stephan Jenkins ~
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.
~By Johnny Winter ~
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
~By Kate Fox ~
I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.
~By Ruth Buzzi ~
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.
~By Allen Johnson ~
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
~By Margaret Cho ~
One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.
~By Neville Marriner ~
I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
~By Gary Lucas ~
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
~By Les Paul ~
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
~By Eric Johnston ~
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 ~
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
~By Richard Masur ~
My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.
~By Paul Taylor ~
With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.
~By Justin Guarini ~
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
~By Paul Simon ~
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
~By Elvis Costello ~
We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
~By Chico Hamilton ~
I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
~By Julie Andrews ~
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
~By Ednita Nazario ~
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
~By Linda Ellerbee ~
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
~By Brian May ~
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 ~
Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
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 ~
The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.
~By Mike Johanns ~
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
~By Michael Porter ~
We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.
~By Robert James Graves ~
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 ~
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
~By John McLaughlin ~
I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
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 ~
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
~By Ron Paul ~
I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.
~By David Talbot ~
I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.
~By Luther Campbell ~
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
~By Andy Summers ~
I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.
~By George Duke ~
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.
~By Ruben Blades ~
I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.
~By Christopher Judge ~
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