Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.
I don't really like the bands that think they're still in 1982. It's boring. When retro sounds are combined with a modern approach, it can be great.
I am interested in everything, which sounds like a cop out. Having been a magazine writer, I do not have a beat.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.
My father was the one who used to stand up in the middle of a number to flutter his lips and make sputtering sounds into lyrics.
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too.
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
Volbeat is one of those bands, where as soon as I hear them, I know who it is. It sounds like Elvis - backed by a Metal band.
What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.
A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.
So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.
Long jumping sounds simple - you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right.
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.
I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing.
I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.
There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.
All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.
I think I sound like the apocalypse destroying the Earth to the sounds of trumpets skating across the heavens played by angels.
One person, one vote sounds so reasonable and - dare I say it - democratic. But the voting process in America is anything but fair and balanced.
In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.
I know this sounds ridiculous but I like guys with love handles. I hate a washboard stomach - that does not turn me on.
Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
I know it sounds silly, but no one really anticipates just how mentally and emotionally taxing and unbelievably physically grueling it is to be the Bachelor.
I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds.
And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.
I don't know whether it is a boon or a bane but I can't act. I can just be. To me, that's the beauty of a performance. Otherwise, there is a falsetto, which sounds jarring.
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.
It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
I broke my wrist at summer camp playing a game called 'volleybat,' which was baseball but with a volleyball. It is as dangerous as it sounds.
I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre, but it still sounds like me.
I think the best way to deal with fitting in is to be yourself. It sounds hard, but in the end, it's much easier than pretending to be something you're not.
Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.
When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.
If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'
It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
Dreams are pretty unexplainable. Have you ever tried to explain a dream to someone, and they're like 'Yeah, that sounds not as exciting as you think it is?'
I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.
Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy
I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.
I am in the bad news business. Seldom do I get to report on puppies, rainbows, or the sounds of children giggling. Well, never.
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