Sound Quotes

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

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.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

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.

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

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.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.