Sound Quotes - Page 121

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

The problem you get with most today's drum samples is that when you use them, you sound like everyone else using them.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it sounds funny, but it's true.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.

I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

The Senate came one vote short of granting approval to build the Keystone pipeline. Democrats say the pipeline could accelerate global warming. Then people who've been outside today said, 'Sounds good to me. Let's accelerate that global warming.'

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.