Sounds Quotes

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it's like, just try to look good. Or maybe don't use Spelling there, that's bad. No - you can. He's dead.

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along element. All these shows can be supported.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.