Sound Quotes

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

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.

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.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

I wouldn't say I worked with these people because I was looking for a particular vocal sound. I worked with them because I loved what they had done before-and because they really wanted to work with me.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

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.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

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.

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

I don't think you can contrive any sound.

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

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.

And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.