Sound Quotes - Page 70

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

I do consider sounds as living things.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards. I don't violate them when I want to sound like an educated person, for the same reason I don't wear a bikini to a funeral when I want to look like a respectful person. There are social conventions for the way we do lots of things, and it is to everyone's benefit to be familiar with them. But logic ain't got nothin' to do with it.

Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.

I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love.

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.