Sound Quotes

What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.