Sound Quotes - Page 10

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.

If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.

So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds cliché, but none of us are.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

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

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.