Top 1200 Sound Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times.

I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not even a real noise: a breath, a trifle of a sound. You have the same thing in music: if in the score there is a pianissimo marked that ends in nothing. Up thee you can feel this 'nothing'. With an orchestra it is very difficult to achieve it. The Berlin Philharmonic manage it sometimes.

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

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.

I think I have a particular logic of my own that has to do with sound and sampling sound, and there isn't a great deal of music out there in that field. Whereas, harmonically and melodically, there's loads.

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'

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

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

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

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

I was never part of the Bristol scene. My sound was a Knowle West sound. Massive Attack wouldn't come to my area because they know they'd have got beaten up there.

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.

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.

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

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

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.'

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

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

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

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.

When I record in a studio I don't use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound - which is my favorite sound.

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.

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

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

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.

My job on a film is to be responsible for all the sounds in the movie besides the music. Together with my team, we work on the dialogue, foley, sound effects, and sound design. We work closely with the director and picture editor in the prep period, and then together with them, the sound mixers, and music crew, we collaborate on the final mix of the film.

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.

We took over with 'Leverage' three warehouses, and now four with 'The Librarians,' and turned them into proper sound stages with sound doors and all the lights. We now have control of four real, proper-sized sound stages. The problem is they're dark and empty half of the year because there aren't enough productions coming into Oregon.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

I know I have patterns and I've always tried hard to avoid them. There are definitely certain things in my music, if I'm looking back, "Well, that was a period where I was experimenting with a certain kind of chord structure or a certain kind of sound." I've tried really hard, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you what that sound, what that tangible sound of "me" is.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

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

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

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

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.

We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.

Minecraft has a terrible sound engine. Imagine a looping sound file that plays for two seconds and then just starts over.

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

I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

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!

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

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.

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

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.

We don't make a distinction between an acoustic instrument as a source of sound and any sound in the air outside or on a manufactured tape. It's all electric energy, anyway.

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

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.