Top 1200 Sound Effects Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

There's a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create.

If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.

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

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Grime is its own sound. There's a lot more to it. It's like a sound, culture, style - the way that they dress and speak.

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

I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

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.

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.

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.

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

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

I love going places that could sound cheesy but, when you hear them, just sound sincere.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

The TLC sound! That's what's so awesome - we have our own sound.

If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself it makes the sound more special.

The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

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

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form.

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!

We are always fortunate to have our own sound folks with us that do a great job in ensuring that everybody can hear and the sound is good.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

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

In Western classical music the idea of holiness, purity, perfection, and total beauty is expressed through clarity of sound - a bell-like sound. Obviously, that has its own place, and it's a beautiful way of doing it. But I don't think I am the first to point out that in Africa, the more buzzing the sound is, the more it indicates the other world - the spirit world.

I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love the way those albums sound, but I want to make records that sound like that in the way I like to make stuff.

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

Working with Timbaland, you know it's not gonna sound like anything else out there today. The sound is very next-level.

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

I did sound for a number of years, so I know the pain of the sound mixer on a set where everybody was talking.

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.

Well, things hold up even if they sound dated. It can be very difficult to listen to 80s pop songs with really, really gigantic smashed drum sounds. You just want to turn that gated reverb down on the snare. It sounds wrong now. It sounds amateurish. And ugly. But at the time it sounded state-of-the-art. So yeah, I think it's important not to sound state-of-the-art in a way that anybody else is going to sound. Or you'll quickly sound like yesterday's state-of-the-art.

We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.