Sounds Quotes

The radio makes hideous sounds.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.