If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and...

Tick. Tick. Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

‘The Exorcist’ is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don’t see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after ‘The Birdcage.’ I think people just didn’t know what to do with me.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It’s been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it’s going to up...

The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There’s a different focus; there’s a different sound.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into...

Father of four. I like the sound of that.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

Only tears can hear the sound of pain when warm blood reddens discolored stain

Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I’d like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It’s always changing.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing...

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, ‘This sound is Puerto Rican sound.’

Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture,” once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. “Other people look awful when they play but...

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

There is a rest that comes when you live out of your sound. Silence is no longer something to be avoided. It signifies a soul at rest.

And in any case…there are no more supernatural noises nowadays…

When I record, it feels like I’m in a bubble. There’s nothing else in my head right then. It’s just that song, and I’m trying to really sound like what the song is about.

Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

Cher and share alike. At least in sound. Most of the decisions I make are sound, exactly like Beethoven when he wrote and discarded his 10th symphony.

Sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both herd and felt. It can even be seen with the mind’s eye. It can almost be tasted and smelled. Sound can evoke responses...

A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard.

And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her...

Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering...

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.

I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

The crow cawed again overhead, and a strong sea wind came in and burst through the trees, making the green pine needles shake themselves all over the place. That sound always gave me goose bumps,...

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

The church I had loved so much was not a good place for me to hear the sound of my own voice. There was room for my talent but no room for my voice. The...

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

I collect words–they are sweets in the mouth of sound.