Sound Quotes - Page 28

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

When anything is easy, it becomes very monotonous for me. But, if I can find something that is really going to take all of my body and all of my mind to really even come close to pulling off, that sounds like fun.

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

Nobody else can make the sound you make.