Sound Quotes - Page 76

Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

Every life has a soundtrack.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

It's the hardest thing for a young player to develop. At the same time a young player also has to deliver their musicality to the audience. I'm still developing my own sound, because you can never know all the music.

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

Tagalog sounds like boiling water.

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes, if I'm with Fincher I'll do 50 - though the thought of that sounds horrible.

Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will . . . cure many current theological concerns.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

It takes some silence to make sound.

Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or certain patterns of form or sound; for others, certain stories or places, Philip Levine's Detroit, Gwendolyn Brooks's Chicago, Seamus Heaney's time-tunneled, familied Ireland.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.

I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.

You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,' Ron mumbled. 'Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was,' said Harry. 'I've been trying to tell you that for years.' Simultaneously they walked forwards and hugged, Harry gripping the still sopping back of Ron's jacket.

Sweet is the day of sacred rest; No mortal cares shall seize my breast; O may my heart in tune be found Like David's harp of solemn sound.