Sound Quotes - Page 49

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

Sounds a little like my quote for the week. Do you want to hear it? This is by Augustine: O soul, He only who created thee can satisfy thee. If thou ask for anything else, it is thy misfortune, for He alone made thee in His image can satisfy thee. That's rich, isn't it?

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.

If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas.

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

No one has ever been able to discover how they [cats] make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

I'm a YouTube star, let's put it that way!That sounds like a karaoke star with balls.

I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

Your limitations create your sound.

Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.