Sound Quotes - Page 83

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.

I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant.

The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.

For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

I like to make my guitar sound mean.

Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.

May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

I haven't played a more beautiful sounding mouthpiece. The sound and response that I get from the JodyJazz DV NY is unlike any other. A very full, true, clear sound that can be commanded at any range or volume at will. JodyJazz has changed my opinion of finding quality craftsmanship in the modern day!!

I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

I make a vegan baked ziti. And even though that doesn't sound enjoyable, it really is.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

I'm working pretty slowly these days, but most of what it is, or a lot of what it is anyway, is kind of in the vein of "Bay of Pigs". Maybe not all in the same scope, but recorded using the same method and using some of the same sounds, or similar sounds.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind’s home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until you’re so desperate to be rid of them that you’ll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.