Sound Quotes - Page 31

Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.

Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may not be different, but in performing with it, it was a necessity to build it if I was going to perform and make scores with it. By making the instruments, it helped me compose the way I want.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

I can say this much with confidence - that I now have a sound of my own

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll-I'll Terminus you, buddy!

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us. It would be hard to find three men sitting side by side who knew better what a river was saying.

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound at least as good as the record.

If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic dimensions like electronic ambient music, it's pushes all of that colour to the foreground so you hear little every atom of sound.