Top 100 Quotes About Sound
#1. To Sky, Clown had become something to be understood; something to be dissected and parameterised. Clown, he now recognised, was something like the bubble-drawing the dolphin had made in the water: a projection carved from light rather than sound.
Alastair Reynolds
#2. Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.
Jon Meacham
#3. That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
Julian Casablancas
#4. Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, "Cthulhu fhtagn".
H.P. Lovecraft
#5. Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're
no good.
Barbara Kingsolver
#6. we might as well be afloat as earthbound, the heave and fall beneath me the rise of planking, and the sound of the pines the wind in our sails.
Diana Gabaldon
#7. Oh my God, she'd kissed him! She'd stuck her tongue inside a creature from hell. Oh jeez, this would sound great in confession. Say two Hail Marys and avoid further contact with the spawn of the devil.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#8. Life is an extraordinary gift some people appear not to appreciate. In every breath and scent, every touch and sight we are gifted by new experience and the chance to feel the richness of experience. Every sound we hear, from the song of a bird to the harshness of an angry voice, is a miracle.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#9. We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.
Cynthia Moss
#11. When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
Linda Ronstadt
#12. Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.
Adam Mansbach
#13. Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart.
Justin Martyr
#14. Hell...chickens,' Jack groused. It was the snickering that really woke me. And the sound of... Elder Jacobs.... muttering, 'Chickens?' 'Kill 'em... bastards,' Jack snorted.
Scarlett Dawn
#15. You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
Martin Scorsese
#16. One of the significant things that's happened, which shouldn't be looked at as lightly as it might sound, is that women over 45, over 50, are now allowed to be sexy.
Lesley Manville
#17. I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.
Michelle Branch
#18. Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
Akiva Goldsman
#19. Her voice was soft, ethereal, the sound of a lullaby half-remembered. The songs she sang, one by one, held Celaena in place. Songs of distant lands, of forgotten legends, of lovers forever waiting to be reunited.
Sarah J. Maas
#20. Keeping your body sound is a statement of appreciation to the entire universe.
Amber Sampson
#21. November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.
Gladys Taber
#22. Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting sound
where sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound
Munia Khan
#23. Surfing? he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before - just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it.
Rick Riordan
#24. Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.
Les Claypool
#25. My lips curve around the shape of his name. I'm surprised to discover how much I love the easy, familiar way the sound rolls off my tongue.
Tahereh Mafi
#26. Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.
Alvin Curran
#27. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.
John Steinbeck
#28. Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.
Jeremy Clarkson
#29. I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.
David Crosby
#30. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.
Allen Ginsberg
#31. Slut. I'm a dirty-
The sound of a hand hitting flesh was simultaneous with the shocking sting on her bottom. "Ow!"
"You don't think those nasty thoughts about my sumisita, Kimberly.
Cherise Sinclair
#32. That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea.
Brandon Boyd
#33. Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.
Joey Ramone
#34. Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts.
Dan Groat
#35. A low, sweet sound comes from his throat. I bring a hand up to the back of his neck. Aside from the deep warmth of passion, my energy stays very, very still, and for the first time, I don't miss it.
Marie Lu
#36. He mouths something so slowly that his snarling lips articulate the sound of each and every letter, but I read them as though his silent words blast as loud as a battle cry. "Kill her!
Michelle Warren
#37. People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
Barry Ritholtz
#38. Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique and has embraced an original sound that has given him a signature that is unmistakable and impossible to duplicate.
Tony MacAlpine
#39. It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#40. I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
Gale Anne Hurd
#41. The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.
Paulo Coelho
#42. Translation is so important. The new American translations of the Bible sound like a Judith Krantz novel.
Rabih Alameddine
#43. The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
Robert Barry
#44. People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.
Iggy Azalea
#45. The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.
Edward Tenner
#46. Little crimes like mine didn't matter anymore. Little deaths like yours didn't make a sound.
Philip Beard
#47. How and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world
and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.
Michael Pollan
#48. Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.
Mark Helprin
#49. Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
Vir Das
#50. From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would
be.
Jamie A. Hughes
#51. My head whips towards the sound of Breanna's sweet voice. At the corner, she waves to our English teacher [Ms Whitlock] then starts to our classroom.
Katie McGarry
#52. Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.
James Cash Penney
#53. A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing ...
Dorothy Bryant
#54. I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
Steve Lacy
#55. I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.
Raymond Bonner
#56. All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.
Woody Norris
#57. You can take a bad singer and make them sound decent; you couldn't do that in the past. With things like Pro Tools and all the other things you have available; like auto tune, and pitch correction you can make someone who can't sing into someone who can.
Michael Sweet
#58. Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
Francesca Annis
#59. 8 v The wind [5] blows w where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
Anonymous
#60. 'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
Jon Voight
#61. I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of God in our ears, even the singing of the vast chorus of the sky, and the holy chant of the stars in their fixed rounds; it is the Holy Stream of Sound.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
#62. Self-knowledge would not especially need the sickly soul as well as the sound one; in short, whether the mere will to health is not a prejudice, a cowardice, and perhaps an instance of the subtlest barbarism and unprogressiveness ?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
Karl Kraus
#64. So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound ...
Hernando Cortes
#65. If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.
Arca
#67. You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.
Jimmy Page
#68. I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
Kailash Satyarthi
#69. I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.
Brian Bell
#70. In our forests
part divine
and makes her heart palpitate
wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!
John Cage
#71. If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.
William Shakespeare
#72. I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.
Joan Armatrading
#73. Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.
Dick Dale
#74. Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#75. There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.
Levon Helm
#76. I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
Waris Ahluwalia
#77. A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless ...
William Wordsworth
#78. Colors are vibrating light energies, each "color ray" produces a sound that affects matter.
Jacqueline Ripstein
#79. I think I hear someone on the stairs. The old wooden boards creak like crazy, and I hear the tell-tale sound of someone walking up the stairs. My heart is practically in my throat now. Then I hear the familiar sound of my old mahogany bedroom door swinging slowly open on squeaky hinges.
April Wilson
#80. This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist - and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.
Terry McDonell
#81. Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
Caitlin Doughty
#82. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.
Melanie Benjamin
#83. It is mostly when we are very young that we take the greatest delight in the sad songs; those who have felt the real bitterness of sorrow are glad to bury it deeply away, and do not wish it wakened, as sailors' wives love a place best where they cannot hear the sound of the sea.
Angela Brazil
#85. Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.
Ralph Webster
#86. Dude," I said, making the word a disgusted sound. "Single guys everywhere hate you. Starting with me.
Jim Butcher
#87. Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.
Thomas Bangalter
#88. What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.
Adhir Kalyan
#89. Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
Mina Loy
#90. We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn't like the sound of that so much.
Lynn Coady
#91. If you start telling the truth it will sound leftist to people on the right, rightist to people on the left, and insane to the insane.
Euphrates Arnaut Moss
#92. He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.
Pete Hamill
#93. Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.
Nicholas Sparks
#94. I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.
Wesley Schultz
#95. I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.
Diego Della Valle
#96. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
Albert Einstein
#97. Warmakers are often wrong ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic
David Cortright
#98. To a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.
Sharon Olds
#99. Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.
John Barbirolli
#100. I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.
Nathan Englander
