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- Nov 07, 2020
Sound Quotes
The many meanings of how something sounds.
These sound quotes range from musicians describing their own recorded voice to a conductor aiming for a particular orchestral character, alongside a sharper caution about what happens when love is tamed and made predictable. See more in Like quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try and manufacture recordings to sound spontaneous. Then, some things are spontaneous.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe we'd forgotten what socialists are meant to look and sound like. Well, now we've been reminded. They're meant to look and sound like Jeremy Corbyn.
- Bursts
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- Nov 07, 2020