Sound Quotes

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.