Sound Quotes - Page 30

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

The genuiness of our worship cannot be measured in decibels of sound, and although it is vital that we express our love for God vocally, He looks to see the evidence in our lives.

Free food!" mumbled Hamilton, his mouth full. "No wonder you're rich. You don't have to pay for anything." "Since when is it free?" Jonah demanded. "If I don't leave a big tip, it'll be all over Europe that the Wiz is a cheapskate! They'll seat me behind the sound-man from the penguin movie at the Oscars!

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

I do my job, and I do what I’m paid to do and I’m always prepared. I prepare by learning the text so well that when I show up, I’m relaxed and the performance sort of happens. Now whether that’s good or bad, I don’t know... Whatever I say is going to sound very egocentric and self centered anyway so I’d better shut up.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.