I don’t want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Music without soul is a sound but sound with a soul is music

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn’t out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a...

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster’s duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don’t want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That’s not what they want to...

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

I don’t really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don’t like when it’s extremely audible, when you’re able to detect it easily. I don’t like that.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don’t want kids hearing, and I’m not changing because they think it’s going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million...

I have the dance moves of a mustache, and a singing voice that sounds like a beard on the inside of my cheeks. Carry my love like karaoke in your pocket.

My love is shaped like a dog whistle—the sound, not the thing. As a lover, I’m a fighter. But dogs have more bark than me—and so do trees.

When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.

So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

If you’re feeling emotional when you’re creating something, it’ll sound that way.

There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.

Love is inaudible—until you hear it. And once you do, you’ll never forget the sound of her voice.

We incorporate various electronic devices – the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we’re trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with...

I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. I wanted to let a gut-wrenching howl rip from my disfigured throat toward those clouded skies. I wanted...

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and...

Owning the sound–Wow!–that is what brings joy to every step. That is what causes people to wake up every morning excited about their day. That is what leaves them energized rather than exhausted like before....

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.

You’re always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity’s sake.

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It’s got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn’t usually in Christmas songs.

I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.

All the Frank O’Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going… it’s so chatty or something.

I always wondered what hearing one’s own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Like color, every SOUND is composed of many different frequenciesand can be used to clear, balance and refresh the field in which youfound yourself, or on which you are working.

How do you know when it’s me?””Your footsteps are apologetic?””What does that mean?”She turned, smiling wiping her hands on her long, black skirt. “It doesn’t mean anything,” she said. “Everybody else here just does what...

One person’s data is another person’s noise.

Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument,...

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show!

THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling She knew not where,Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declareA beautiful lofty...

If you’re a good singer, you’re going to make anything sound good.

Murphy alichanganyikiwa. Hakujua nini kilitokea na kwa nini. Ila, ghafla, alipotupa macho kushoto aliona kitu. Joka kubwa lilitambaa, ingawa kwa shida, kwa sababu ya sakafu, na kumfuata kummaliza. Murphy alijua joka hata angefanya vipi, hakuwa...

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed.

I told myself ‘Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die....

Bon Jovi’s trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

By its definition, sound is interactive. It is you connecting with the frequency of something greater or richer through hearing. Likewise, when your sound goes out, you can no longer hear the sound of your...

It’s very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

Fortunately, as we all know, it’s impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I’m going to have a big band, they’re going to have to sound equally as good as what I’m used...

I’m not a country picker, really – I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It’s all about the inflection.

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.