Quotes on Sound

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

Author: Casey Abrams

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

Author: Jon Anderson

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

Author: Joan Armatrading

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Author: Randy Bachman

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Author: Christian Bale

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

Author: Afrika Bambaataa

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

Author: Christine Baranski

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

Author: Daniel Barenboim

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Author: Ludwig Beethoven

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Author: Leonard Bernstein

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Author: Aneurin Bevan

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

Author: Toni Braxton

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.

Author: Bill Bruford

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

Author: Harold Budd

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Author: T-Bone Burnett

If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

Author: Luther Campbell

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again.

Author: Tia Carrere

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

Author: Deana Carter

The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.

Author: Tom Chapin

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.

Author: Gary Cherone

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.

Author: Alice Cooper

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

Author: Chick Corea

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

Author: Dick Dale

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

Author: Roger Daltrey

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

Author: Bette Davis

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

Author: Don DeLillo

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Author: Anne Dudley

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

Author: George Duke

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Author: Brian Eno

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

Author: Siobhan Fahey

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

Author: Colin Firth

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.

Author: Grandmaster Flash

I think I sound like Barry White.

Author: Gloria Gaynor

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Author: Stan Getz

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

Author: Stan Getz

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

Author: Beth Gibbons

I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him.

Author: Mike Gordon

This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument.

Author: Mike Gordon

I go where the sound of thunder is.

Author: Alfred Gray

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Author: Augustus Hare

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

Author: Jerry Harrison

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

Author: Bill Hicks

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

Author: Stephen Hopkins

When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound.

Author: Jane Horrocks

And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Author: Charlie Hunter

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.

Author: Roman Jakobson

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Author: Richard James

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

Author: Adam Jones

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

Author: Kelly Jones

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

Author: Norah Jones

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.

Author: Wynonna Judd

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

Author: Evel Knievel

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

Author: Lee Konitz

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

Author: Steve Lacy

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

Author: Steve Lacy

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

Author: John Leeson

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

Author: Loretta Lynn

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Author: Stephen Malkmus

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

Author: Stephen Malkmus

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

Author: Stephen Malkmus

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Author: Marya Mannes

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

Author: Branford Marsalis

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.

Author: Roger McGuinn

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

Author: Pat Metheny

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

Author: Pat Metheny

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

Author: Kylie Minogue

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.

Author: Robert Morgan

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

Author: Giorgio Moroder

I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

Author: Ennio Morricone

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

Author: Alva Noto

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Author: Charles Olson

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

Author: Les Paul

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

Author: Oscar Peterson

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Author: Suzi Quatro

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Author: Noel Redding

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Author: Will Rogers

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

Author: Johnny Rotten

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.

Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

Author: Roselyn Sanchez

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Author: Pierre Schaeffer

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

Author: Neil Schon

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

Author: Jon Secada

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

Author: Brian Setzer

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Author: William Shakespeare

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

Author: Tommy Shaw

I don't think you can contrive any sound.

Author: George Shearing

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Author: John Shedd

I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place.

Author: Billy Sherwood

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

Author: Mike Shinoda

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

Author: Marina Sirtis

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

Author: Leonard Slatkin

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Author: Chad Smith

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.

Author: Jimmy Smith

Creed's sound is my sound.

Author: Scott Stapp

If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.

Author: Gwen Stefani

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

Author: Ben Stein

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

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

Author: Andy Summers

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

Author: Andy Summers

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

Author: Paul Taylor

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

Author: Benmont Tench

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

Author: Mary Timony

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Author: Calvin Trillin

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Author: Bill Veeck

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

Author: Tom Verlaine

Every sound alarms.

Author: Virgil

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

Author: Don Vliet

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

Author: Gene Ween

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

Author: Lawrence Welk

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

Author: Irvine Welsh

I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.

Author: Ann Wilson

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

Author: Ann Wilson

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.

Author: Ann Wilson

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

Author: Teddy Wilson

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.

Author: Fay Wray

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

Author: Chely Wright

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

Author: Neil Young

The moments we are silent and listen can sometimes teach us more than all the words we speak

Author: Hannah Stevens