Sound Quotes - Page 22

I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul

I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty....you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

I live in a flat with 3 women, I call it surround sound. I keep the ugly one behind the sofa as a woofer.

When you have a sound mind, you can do what's necessary.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

I feel the sexiest when I'm by myself, walking around nude. I have this new obsession with nudity, it's really weird. It may sound weird, but I just really love embracing the body.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

Rests always sound well.

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.