Sounds Quotes

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

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.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

I take sounds and change them into words.

To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.