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.

I’m all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they,...

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

I don’t like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

Nyoka ni mnyama mdogo lakini anayeogopwa hata na majambazi wakubwa. Adui wa dirishani alipogeuka kumwangalia Murphy, alimwangalia pia mwenzake na kucheka bila Murphy kujua kilichofanya wafurahi. Ghafla, kuna kitu kilitokea! Nyoka mkubwa aina ya swila...

Music is organized sound.

He’s a funny one,” said Ida. “Here’s how he sound.” She pursed her lips and, expertly, imitated the red-winged blackbird’s call: not the liquid piping of the wood thrush, which dipped down into the dry...

I don’t believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you’re doing with it.

Happy Birthday!” The smell of cake and the sound of feet under the table. I awake in a body that’s too big. I also dream in motion and sensation. My father’s boat and the snore...

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?

Silence is the door to Oran Mor. Close your eyes. Quieten your thoughts. And listen. Listen in particular to the sound of the waves. Let the Great Song sing in you. In an hour I...

If you bulk order enough sound, you get a discount by volume. The guys in the warehouse know me by the codename Helen Keller.

THE TRUTH OF THE VERY SMALLWhen he is born, a baby’s head is filled with the knowledge of space. The circumference of his skull is as infinite as the twirlings of the universe. His eyes...

I’m a mash-up of everyone. My influences would be Michael Jackson, Brandy, Aaliyah – those types of people. So if you can imagine them – and with me taking them, and then putting my own...

Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!

It’s refreshing to hear something that’s pop but doesn’t sound like Britney Spears.

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I’ve met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I’ve interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn’t...

I didn’t respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

If we spoke with our ears, and listened through our mouth, then a kiss might be the most romantic sound in the world.

I want to say more, but don’t know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air...

The most disturbing sound in the world comes from the alarm clock at 5:30am

When I say I love the silence, I’m not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I’m silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination.