Top 100 Quotes About Sounds
#1. Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
Eduard Hanslick
#2. Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
Dee Dee Ramone
#3. Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#4. All of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters
Albert Lee
#5. The last thing I need is more high school drama but a support group that doesn't dig into my personal business sounds good. They can keep the drama for themselves.
Nikki Godwin
#6. Sounds painful, but the lady on the bottle is smiling
Wendy Mass
#7. The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Anatole France
#8. The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells subtly impregnated the surrounding atmosphere with the melody of sounds that faded like the ashes of dead years.
Georges Rodenbach
#9. Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.
John Ruskin
#10. It's not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing. Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn't. I always want the action to be witty. I don't want it to be merely routine.
Adrian Hodges
#11. They had journeyed halfway across the world, and had rattled across eleven US states, through wide-open plains and busy railroad junctions. They had grown accustomed to new sights and sounds but nothing could have prepared them for their arrival in America's greatest city.
Claire Prentice
#12. The more I follow grace, the more I'm drawn to him (God), the more I'm willing to stand up for people being persecuted.. This sounds so churchy, but I felt like God spoke to my heart and said '(homosexuality) is not a sin'.
Jay Bakker
#13. Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers ... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.
Heinrich Heine
#14. It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support.
Tom Felton
#15. Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:
Ryan Hackney
#16. I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.
Giovanni Ribisi
#17. I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
Levon Helm
#18. How is it my fault that his name sounds like low-grade pornography? Blame his dumbass parents.
Cassandra Gannon
#19. He'd forgotten about the beautiful things in life. Soft things. Gentle things. Sights and sounds. Tastes and touches. She was all of them wrapped up in one sweet package.
Sarah Castille
#20. We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.
Mike Lowry
#21. I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
Zooey Deschanel
#22. We still should have enough time to reach Rome."
Hazel scowled. "When you say should have enough ... "
Leo shrugged. "How do you feel about barely enough?"
Hazel put her face in her hands for a count of three. "Sounds about typical for us.
Rick Riordan
#23. If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
Adam Jones
#24. For me, it's just more satisfying when you follow the rules rather than just make a bunch of sounds. The magic of just making noise in the studio goes away after a while.
Adam Schlesinger
#25. And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#26. I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really them.
Drumma Boy
#27. So what was the hardest part?' Mr Gopnik said.
'I'm sorry?'
'Of working for William Traynor. It sounds like quite a challenge.'
I hesitated. The room was suddenly very quiet. 'Letting him go.' I said. And found myself unexpectedly biting back tears.
Jojo Moyes
#28. Antigone: We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.
Ismene: Who said that?
Antigone: Hegel.
Ismene: Sounds more like Beckett.
Antigone: He was paraphrasing Hegel.
Ismene: I don't think so.
Anne Carson
#29. When I get real high I can feel the space between sounds.
Don DeLillo
#30. The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Gustav Mahler
#31. Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis.
The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand.
(it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation ... )
Edgar Allan Poe
#32. Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to them these days.
Norton Juster
#33. Words aren't just sounds or shapes. They're meaning. That's what language is: a protocol for transferring meaning. When you learn English, you train your brain to react in a particular way to particular sounds. As it turns out, the protocol can be hacked.
Max Barry
#34. It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination ... Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.
Louise J. Kaplan
#35. The man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions - despite the objections of intellectuals. The courage to speak, perhaps, even when he believes that what he is suggesting sounds like madness.
Philip Kerr
#36. Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You don't choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.
Dawn Downey
#37. To the non-Swiss ear it sounds as if the speaker is construing made-up words from the oddest rhythms and the queerest clipped consonants and the most perturbing arrangement of gaping, rangy vowels.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#38. If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.
Archibald MacLeish
#39. The belfry of St Cloud slowly emitted ten strokes from its broad sonorous jaws. There was something melancholy in that voice of bronze, which thus breathed its lamentations in the night. But each of those sounds, which told the hour he sighed for, vibrated harmoniously in the heart of the young man.
Alexandre Dumas
#40. I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.
Cliff Martinez
#41. You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.
Glynis Johns
#42. Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.
Rebecca West
#43. One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.
Elia Kazan
#44. I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.
Julia Kent
#45. It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.
Doug Martsch
#46. You don't know who Nicolas Cage is?" North sounds incredulous. "You need to see National Treasure immediately. I mean, it's terrible, but since you're essentially living it, you ought to at least see it.
Lauren Miller
#47. This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.
Ashley Benson
#48. A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.
Eric San
#49. I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!
Kelly Brook
#50. Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation.
Elif Safak
#51. Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
Gertrude Stein
#52. It is a sense you do not possess, and hence I cannot explain it to you," she added condescendingly. "Imagine trying to explain a sense of smell to someone who had none. What sounds like an arbitrary, almost mystic ability is no different from smelling apple blossoms in the dark.
Robin Hobb
#53. THERE ARE MEMORIES we cannot escape. We take them with us wherever we go, however far, like it or not. They pursue us or accompany us in good times and in bad. We smell their scents. We hear their sounds. We delight in them or dread them. By day and by night. My
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#55. It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
Merle Haggard
#56. echoing gabble and nonsense, and then something bee-stung the inside of my right elbow and everything mellowed and faded out again. The next things I registered were the sounds and the smells of a hospital room.
Ken McKea
#58. Even though the Olympics take place during Ramadan, some Muslim athletes said they will not fast during games. Then, after sampling the British food, they said, on second thought, fasting sounds good.
Conan O'Brien
#59. That's why i started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.
Brian Chippendale
#60. It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.
Elizabeth Hand
#61. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
Elvis Costello
#62. I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
Jill Abramson
#63. It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.
John DiMaggio
#64. Romney sounds like he wants to be the nice uncle in a sitcom, Santorum sounds like he wants to be a twelfth-century archbishop, Gingrich sounds like he wants to go to outer space, and Paul sounds like he came from there.
John Barnes
#65. Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music.
Jim Butcher
#66. I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.
Jonah Hill
#67. A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room.
Orson Scott Card
#68. Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.
Lauren Groff
#69. The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.
Dana Gioia
#70. The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.
Colin Marston
#71. With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
Akif Pirincci
#72. Hope
your time from the end of the year to
start of a new year
always sounds 'it will be happier and fruitful' ...
Santosh Kalwar
#73. Life sucks. Hard. I don't care how melodramatic that sounds, it's the truth and I'm living it.
Maggi Myers
#74. I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day.
Wolfman Jack
#75. Sexual frustration' - it always sounds like the only frustrated ones are the ones who don't do it. What a laugh. The frustrated ones are the ones who do do it! The ones who don't can at least preserve some illusions.
Eva Heller
#76. I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.
Beck
#77. It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.
Lauren Oliver
#78. Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.
Scarlett Johansson
#79. I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
Trent Reznor
#80. They found he'd had a lethal dose of something that only a doctor could pronounce properly. As far as I remember it sounds vaguely like di-flor, hexagonal-ethylcarbenzol. That's not the right name. But that's roughly what it sounds like.
Agatha Christie
#81. I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Conor Oberst
#82. To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.
Henry Rollins
#83. Is it dead?' said Gurder.
'It can't die! It's existed for thousands of years!'
Gurder shook his head. 'Sounds like a good reason for dying,' he said.
Terry Pratchett
#84. Just lay down on the beach, with nothing intellectual or constructive to do , other than soaking in the sun, and listening to the refreshing sounds of the water waves and admiring the smiles of the near and dear ones that we love.
Tina Sequeira
#85. Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.
Yanni
#86. The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.
Jordana Brewster
#87. When you kissed me ... I felt special.
I never really felt like I deserved it.
That isn't your fault. That was me.
When I looked down the aisle on our wedding day and you weren't there, my first thought, as awful as this sounds, wasn't, "Where is he?" it was, "Oh, it figures.
Virginia Nelson
#88. I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like Pullhair Rubeye, or something a little bit more organic than that.
Avey Tare
#89. River that must turn full after I stop dying
Song, my song, raise grief to music
Light as my loves' thought, the few sick
So sick of wrangling: thus weeping,
Sounds of light, stay in her keeping
And my son's face - this much for honor.
Louis Zukofsky
#91. The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.
James Fenton
#92. Seize the moment, however worried you may be about what's coming next. It's your brain, it's your life, it's your attitude ... . Go out there and fill up with sights, sounds, and ideas that are bigger than yourself.
James Patterson
#93. Chloe, I'm not kidding. I'm not letting you out of my sight until Christmas." She squinted up at the later afternoon June sun. "Christmas? That sounds a little gimp-in-the-basement for my tastes." "If you're not into that, this relationship might not work after all," I teased.
Christina Lauren
#94. I am a tambourine. Don't put me aside
till the fast dancing starts.
Play me some all along.
Help me with these little sounds.
Rumi
#95. I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.
Daniel Handler
#96. The lady hasn't lost it yet - the sound of freedom. When she laughs, you can hear the wind in the trees and the splash of water hitting pavement. You can sense the gentle caress of rain on your face and how laughter sounds in the open air, all the things those of us in this dungeon can never feel.
Rene Denfeld
#97. First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's as if the other thoughts in there wriggle out of the way to give it some room.
Michael Marshall Smith
#98. I think that people which can choose should use their ability, the people which can't should be made soldiers... so far it sounds faiiir.
Deyth Banger
#99. I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Samuel Johnson
#100. The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.
Steve Vai
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