Sound Quotes - Page 127

I've heard the sound of 70 condoms being scraped over the floor at the British Museum. It feels like being an adventurer. Why would you stay in your living room if you could go out and experience things no one's ever experienced?

I don't listen to a huge amount of music generally. Partly because you've sat in a studio for 10 hours and then when you come home you just want to read a book, and listen to the sound of your central heating system.

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.

Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

I hate to say "found himself" - it sounds so ridiculous.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.

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

I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.