Sound Quotes - Page 143

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem.

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.