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.

Give me something in between the spectrums of light, darkness and sound and most days I will create something out of it for you.

I know that doesn’t sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there’s an occasional piece that will pop out.

I’m just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. I’m not Mr. Debonair Suave. I’m just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn’t sound very...

the sound of voice can touch from far.

Honoring your feelings awakens your soul. Feelings keep you awake. And it is from that awake place, that sound, that you build your life.

It starts with a single sound. If there’s something in that sound, then it’s worth continuing.

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.