Sound Quotes

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart.

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.