Sound Quotes - page 4

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor. (Carl Schurz)

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

Conan O'Brien

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Nancy Lopez

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Ferdinand de Saussure

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

Charlton Heston

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Andy Summers

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Ann Beattie

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

Adrian Belew

My first love was the sound of guitar.

Boz Scaggs

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Evan Parker

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother. (Francis Maude)

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

Giorgio Moroder

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.

Greg Ginn

I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

Leo Kottke

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Marilyn Hacker

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

Neal Schon

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Philip Levine

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

Stephen Hopkins

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

Stephen Malkmus

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

Steve Lacy

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own. (Utada Hikaru)

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

Vince Neil

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

Warren Rudman

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Zoltan Kodaly

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Sanskrit learning.

Mahatma Gandhi

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