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.

I don’t try to be someone I’m not – I’ve always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought.2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue.3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous.4. But virtue...

I’m rapping in English but in an African way. I’m not trying to sound like an American.

Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love – and I know this doesn’t sound like a workout album – the Lumineers, lately,...

You know, there’s that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound – well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

I’ve got that nice raspy sound.

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would...

The sound of life, Everyone has got their own song playing in the background of their life , some has melody and some has depressing music and some extra ordinary people are standing their choosing...

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.

The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely...

Nine Inch Nails’ sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

If the sound of your voice is not so loud it cannot be ignored, you aren’t quite there yet. You’ll continue to try this for a little while and then switch to that. You’ll chase...

People don’t want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.

It’s a 360-degree sound experience. Like you’re in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God’s people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.

Love sounds like a trumpet mimicking a trombone. That’s one of my hobbies, when I’m not impersonating statues of mimes.

Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that’s when you know you did something.

I don’t want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There’s a facility in that kind of writing.

ContrastsThe windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windowsShineThe precious stones of lightListen to the violins of the limousines and the xylophones of the linotypesThe sketcher washes with...

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

Fight the good fight of faith; ignore all callings of doubt regardless of how loud they sound. Arm yourself always against disappointments by planning and preparing very well.

The sound of the words as they’re said is always different from the sound they make when they’re heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Most books are surplus to the world’s requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren’t just using up trees.