Sound Quotes

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

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.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

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.