Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but...

It’s sometimes better to pretend I don’t hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia,...

The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.

I don’t really care how I sound.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.

Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because a formal place has been set for it. At the moment when things have gotten sufficiently...

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Do not trap yourself into an owl’s hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody’s ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There’s only one of those.

Listen to the rhythm of your life. March to the beat of your own sound. Your true self is what others are attracted to.

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass,which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.

Flowers smell terrific, but how do they sound? If they sound like your love life, then you’ve got to take your Helen Keller Goggles off.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It’s a language that was alien and then it’s less and less alien as it continues to live.

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

Recovery is most often associated with some type of illness, addiction or mental health issue. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the struggle of getting back to where you were before the sound...

Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.

Certain voices heardare heardnot becausethey are phonetic…But,from one soulthey head,to another,in the form of magic.(Poem: When, When a not, Book: Ginger and Honey)

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn’t go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it’s live. I’m very conscious of that.

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn’t us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the...

Nothing could capture the sound of Dick Dale – he was too loud.

Echo of the waves appears in the sky, their lights reflected in your eyes. I’m back in our world and happy again. The sound of your voice, compassionate embrace… The power in your touch, serenity...

Until you can allow yourself to feel without fear of criticism, rejection or abandonment–even self imposed fear–you will not and cannot hear the sound of your voice or the sound of your life.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

Now, Emily didn’t make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

A fan can be used as a listening device, pushing sound waves towards your ears, along with cool air. I listen harder than a hurricane, and that’s why I have a vacant and evacuated expression.

We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

Everybody’s just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the driver something or get back into the taxi and return forthwith to Chillán...

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I’m trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder’s sound, and Donny Hathaway’s sound. It’s just part of who I am – I’m just a soulful kind of dude.

When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I...

Such a voice this man has. The way he sounds isn’t a sound at all. It’s a river into which words are thrown.

A man who is ‘of sound mind’ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.