Top 1200 Sound Systems Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

There's no excuse for having a mental or creative block in sound. You can just go out and collect things in the real world - they make the sound, not you. It's very restricting to always use a library for sound effects. It's much more interesting and freeing to go out and record new sounds because you never know what you're going to get.

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

Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.

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

Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways, moral systems are simply things that we have programmed into ourselves, either through childhood or just through genetic, ingrained ideas. So the same thing applies when you talk about machines.

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

Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

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.

Sound is very important to us, even in our scripts. We write-in tons of sound effects.

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.

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

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

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

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.

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

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

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

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.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

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

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

Every one of you sitting here today is carrying at least 500 measurable chemicals in your body that were never in anybody's body before the 1920s... We have dusted the globe with man-made chemicals that can undermine the development of the brain and behavior, and the endocrine, immune and reproductive systems, vital systems that assure perpetuity... Everyone is exposed.

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

In my world, the first thing I reach for is the sound. Technique is Ok, but if you got the technique and I got a good sound, I'll beat you every time. You can play a thousand notes and I can play one note and wipe you out. What I reach for is ... a sound.

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.

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

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way.

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

A sound like a sound of thunder rolled, And the heart of a nation stirred

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

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

I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned.

The PFOA, PFOS is is a real concern and people need to be concerned about it and the water systems need to be concerned about it. But when you only focus on that, it could take resources away from other issues or problems that the water systems have diverted to just this. And this may not be a huge problem in every community.

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 open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.

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

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

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.

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

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

I based my tuning on Gene Krupa, Buddy and Joe Morello. I knew how I wanted the drums to sound and we did the best we could with a beat up Ludwig kit. I spent a lot of time around drummers learning how to get sound. I knew the sound I was after and what would work for what we were playing.

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

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

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

I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created.

Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basic nature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon or eliminate freedom in any way are systems which work against life itself.

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

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

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

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.

My engineering training taught me to be a systems thinker. I looked at companies as "systems" and saw work as a system of tasks - that needed to be reengineered. I was also focused on operations, getting things done and built. My engineering training taught me to be a pragmatist.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human societies, it could be very bad news. Because although such authoritarian systems seem to be good at preserving social coherence and an orderly society, they are, by the same token, not good at adapting to change.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

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