Top 1200 Sound Systems Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.

When the kirtan is harmonious with so many people, it’s a tumultuous beautiful sound. We can’t hear just one voice during the chorus; or rather we do hear one voice. But that one voice is actually the sound of everyone’s voice in harmony. That’s our offering to God. And why is it so pleasing to the Lord? Because we are all cooperating for a higher purpose. We are all united for the pleasure of the center, for the pleasure of Krishna, in spite of all our differences.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront. He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.

Technology is rapidly changing our transportation systems, and if we craft smart regulations, these changes can be for the better.

Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity.

We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.

It's inspiring to see Black Flag looking like Vietnamese farmers with big beards and those kind of Vietnamese farming hats showing up at a Mohawk-mania club in England and being spat at because they don't sound or look like Exploited; they sound more like Black Sabbath than Black Flag. I love that.

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

When you're a producer on top of that, just havin' a beat that's hot is not enough. Now you know your sound, 'cause you've been workin' on your sound for so long, and now you're extra picky. You might do a beat that's ill, that the average rapper would pay big money to get on, but you don't wanna do it because you're like, "Ehhh... it's not what I'm looking for, it's not what I'm goin' for." So you're extra picky.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.

When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party have overseen the destruction of one of the greatest systems of health care in the world.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

Truth be told, relying on 'one country, two systems' to preserve our values is a lost cause.

In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.

If bitcoin is more expensive or slower than traditional financial systems, people aren't going to use it.

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

Countless banks around the world are already testing distributed ledger systems in proof-of-concept trials.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.

I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems.

I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.