300 Quotes on Sound

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  Author: The British Songstress - Adele Adkins

• Each retro sound from a folder invokes access not just to illusion but to a semblance of resurrection - where echoes collide with peripherals timezone weary yet anew.

  Author: Emi Muldoon

• The whispers of the wind masked in frequencies reveal the poetry spun behind ambiguity; delve deep enough, and you'll transcend ordinary boundary with coded anti-magic blooming realities with splashes of noise.

  Author: Nia Zemstra

• In the unseen patterns of the air, stories nestle between dynamic frequencies, inviting us to decrypt messages long overlooked by tired minds.

  Author: Sandrina Torres

• Lost words shoulder the weight of stories untold, waiting for eager ears to weave them anew into the fabric of our understanding.

  Author: Aislinn Maple

• Silence can be a masterful stroke of gentleness, painting emotions where words may falter and soundlessly shaping our deepest understandings.

  Author: Elise McRwath

• Every whisper of the wind and rustle of leaves composes a melody unseen, drawing us deeper into the symphony of nature, waiting to be discovered.

  Author: Sienna Ravello

• Harmonies woven by the whispers of the wind unveil tales the heart hasn't yet spoken.

  Author: Sylvie Taliko

• Within the whispers of a tranquil forest and the roars of a winding river lies an unspoken symphony, reminding us that nature's uncharted soundscapes are as enthralling as any crafted melody.

  Author: Leonora Finch

• In a world booming with noise, a calm embrace pendulates rhythm through flavors left unspoken.

  Author: Aria Dulcet

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

  Author: Hannah Stevens

• Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• 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

• I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

  Author: Angus Young

• My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

  Author: Dick York

• The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

  Author: Gary Wright

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Fay Wray

• Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

  Author: Niklaus Wirth

• Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

  Author: Shelley Winters

• I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

  Author: Johnny Winter

• With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• 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

• I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• 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.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.

  Author: Charles Wilson

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

  Author: Ann Wilson

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

  Author: Ann Wilson

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

  Author: Ann Wilson

• 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.

  Author: Roy Williams

• I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

  Author: Ian Williams

• Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

  Author: Brian Williams

• I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

  Author: Meg White

• The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

  Author: Mark White

• Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

  Author: Mark White

• I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

  Author: Mark White

• I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

  Author: Barry White

• Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Gene Ween

• People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

  Author: Muddy Waters

• That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

  Author: Muddy Waters

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

  Author: Josiah Warren

• The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

  Author: Derek Walcott

• All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Author: Voltaire

• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Author: Voltaire

• I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

  Author: Don Vliet

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

  Author: Don Vliet

• You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?

  Author: Paul Vixie

• I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!

  Author: Tony Visconti

• Every sound alarms.

  Author: Virgil

• Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

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

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• 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

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

  Author: Thorstein Veblen

• Music is organized sound.

  Author: Edgard Varese

• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

  Author: Edgard Varese

• A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

  Author: Paul Valery

• The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

• People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

  Author: Mao Tung

• Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

  Author: David Tudor

• I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

  Author: David Tudor

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

  Author: Calvin Trillin

• Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

  Author: Arturo Toscanini

• It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

  Author: Mel Torme

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

  Author: Mary Timony

• 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.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

  Author: James Thurber

• But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

  Author: Leon Theremin

• The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

  Author: George Tenet

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

  Author: Benmont Tench

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

  Author: Paul Taylor

• And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

  Author: Lawrence Taylor

• From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

  Author: David Talbot

• Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

  Author: Toru Takemitsu

• The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

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

  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

• If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

  Author: Andy Summers

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

  Author: Andy Summers

• After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

  Author: Stijn Streuvels

• And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

  Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

• And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

  Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

• But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

  Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

• Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

  Author: David Stiers

• We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

  Author: Mark Steyn

• I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

  Author: Anne Stevenson

• 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.

  Author: Craig Stevens

• Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

  Author: Howard Stern

• When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.

  Author: George Stephen

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

  Author: Ben Stein

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

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

  Author: Ringo Starr

• Creed's sound is my sound.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

  Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky

• It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

  Author: Eliot Spitzer

• The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

  Author: Catherine Spence

• It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

  Author: James Spader

• If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

  Author: Socrates

• Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

  Author: Robert Smith

• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

  Author: Logan 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

• 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

• Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

  Author: Jane Smiley

• For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

  Author: Christopher Smart

• My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

  Author: Joshua Slocum

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

  Author: Leonard Slatkin

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

  Author: Marina Sirtis

• An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

  Author: Donald Sinden

• I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

  Author: Nancy Sinatra

• There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

  Author: Paul Simon

• Listen to the sound of silence.

  Author: Paul Simon

• A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

  Author: Nigel Short

• 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 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

• There is just a major difference between the sound of analog tape and digital tape.

  Author: Kenny Shepherd

• It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

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

  Author: John Shedd

• I don't think you can contrive any sound.

  Author: George Shearing

• 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.

  Author: Jules Shear

• 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

• The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

  Author: George Shaw

• This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

  Author: Elizabeth Sewell

• Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• 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

• You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

  Author: Bob Seger

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

  Author: Jon Secada

• I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.

  Author: John Sebastian

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

  Author: Neil Schon

• I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

  Author: Michael Schenker

• Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

  Author: Pierre Schaeffer

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

  Author: Pierre Schaeffer

• In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

  Author: Pierre Schaeffer

• My first love was the sound of guitar.

  Author: Boz Scaggs

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  Author: Ferdinand Saussure

• 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

• A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

  Author: Eric San

• I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• 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

• These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.

  Author: Aulis Sallinen

• Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

• And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places.

  Author: Joe Sacco

• We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  Author: Salman Rushdie

• I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

  Author: Jane Rule

• My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  Author: Warren Rudman

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

  Author: Johnny Rotten

• For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.

  Author: James Roosevelt

• I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

  Author: John Romero

• The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.

  Author: Christina Romer

• Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

  Author: Al Roker

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

  Author: Will Rogers

• A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

  Author: Kid Rock

• One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.

  Author: Mark Roberts

• Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

  Author: Terry Riley

• When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

  Author: Rihanna

• Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

  Author: Jonathan Richman

• Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

  Author: Buddy Rich

• I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

  Author: Adam Rich

• Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

  Author: Grantland Rice

• Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

  Author: Ruggiero Ricci

• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  Author: Ruggiero Ricci

• Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

  Author: Marc Ribot

• Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

  Author: Tim Reid

• 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

• Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.

  Author: Glenn Quinn

• Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Priestley

• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour 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.

  Author: J. Priestley

• A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

  Author: Michael Porter

• I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

  Author: Iggy Pop

• By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

  Author: Titus Plautus

• Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  Author: Plato

• Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

  Author: Mary Pickford

• People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

  Author: Edith Piaf

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

  Author: Sam Phillips

• I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

  Author: Liz Phair

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

  Author: Oscar Peterson

• That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

  Author: Carl Perkins

• Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

  Author: Sonny Perdue

• When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

  Author: Lester Pearson

• The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

  Author: Rob Paulsen

• A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

  Author: Ron Paul

• 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

• I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

  Author: Les Paul

• I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

  Author: Alan Parsons

• There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

  Author: Evan Parker

• We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.

  Author: Major Owens

• I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.

  Author: Buck Owens

• We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.

  Author: Buzz Osborne

• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  Author: George Orwell

• I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

  Author: Charles Olson

• The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

  Author: Charles Olson

• I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

  Author: Jean O'Leary

• My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

  Author: Sharon Olds

• I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

  Author: Carroll O'Connor

• But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

  Author: Ed O'Brien

• This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  Author: Barack Obama

• My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy.

  Author: Kim Novak

• I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

  Author: Alva Noto

• One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.

  Author: Alva Noto

• 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

• Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  Author: Albert Nock

• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  Author: Jack Nicklaus

• Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

  Author: Juice Newton

• I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

  Author: Aaron Neville

• It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

  Author: John Neumann

• Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

  Author: Vince Neil

• The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

  Author: George Nathan

• People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

  Author: Gamal Nasser

• I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

  Author: Graham Nash

• Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.

  Author: Graham Nash

• I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

  Author: Sunny Murray

• We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.

  Author: Graeme Murphy

• The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

  Author: Johannes Muller

• Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.

  Author: Alison Moyet

• The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

  Author: John Mortimer

• I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

  Author: Robert Morris

• Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

  Author: Richard Morris

• 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

• The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

  Author: Giorgio Moroder

• Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

  Author: Giorgio Moroder

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

  Author: Giorgio Moroder

• I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

  Author: Ikue Mori

• Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

  Author: Ikue Mori

• 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

• For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

  Author: Eugenio Montale

• You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

  Author: Isaac Mizrahi

• 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

• I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.

  Author: Liza Minnelli

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

  Author: Pat Metheny

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

  Author: Pat Metheny

• Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

  Author: Andrew Mellon

• I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

  Author: Christine McVie

• When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.

  Author: Timothy McVeigh

• Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

  Author: Mignon McLaughlin

• I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

  Author: Brian McKnight

• We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.

  Author: John McHugh

• 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 don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.

  Author: Mark McGrath

• There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

  Author: Mary McAleese

• I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

  Author: Brian May

• We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

  Author: Francis Maude

• We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.

  Author: Francis Maude

• There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

  Author: Richard Masur

• On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

  Author: Mary Masterson

• I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night.

  Author: Angie Martinez

• I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

  Author: Branford Marsalis

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

  Author: Branford Marsalis

• There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.

  Author: Teena Marie

• It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

  Author: Taryn Manning

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