Sounding Quotes

I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

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.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding... old.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.

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.

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

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.

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.