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.