Sounds Quotes

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support.

I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy - I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers.

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

Sounds always fascinated me.

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.