Sound Quotes

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.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

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

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

Sound comes out of a life experience.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.