Sound Quotes - Page 51

I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

The thing that amazes me about getting fired is that nobody ever has anything insightful to say about it. They always say the same thing. They always say, 'Everything happens for a reason.' As lame as that sounds, I guess it’s better to hear it out loud. Because when you hear it in your own head, it sounds like, 'Anything can happen with a razor.

A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

The act of surrendering sort of puts me in a different mindset that allows me to be more of a channel - because I'm not holding on so tightly to things, I'm letting go, and I find that in letting go I become more of a channel for life to really happen on life's terms. I mean, maybe that sounds sort of metaphysical, but that's honestly how I feel.

if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business.

Everything in Italian sounds like 'Give me your money or I'm going to beat your @$$'.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

Every single element in an advertisement - headline, subhead, photo, and copy - must be put there not because it looks good, not because it sounds good, but because testing has shown that it works best!

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.