Sound Quotes

It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.

Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

I will confess I am a great wingman. Since I have a girlfriend, I'll start the night with her, but then I'll help out the guys by making them sound like the most incredible guys in the world.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking!

As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .

Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it – even though others may hesitate or differ.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.