Sound Quotes - Page 20

I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps me execute the progressive cooking we do at Alinea.

Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

King Kofi Kingston. The initials are horrible but the name sounds great.

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.