In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.
When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.
Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.
Homemade' sounds much better when not referring to tattoos.
I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.
Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.
The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream.
There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.
It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.
It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.
I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.
We're going to make America wealthy again, because if you don’t do that, it just - it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth of our nation.
Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.
To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.
When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.
I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.
Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.
I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.
When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice.
You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
