- Disappointment
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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
- Formulation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The formulation of sound national policy requires finding the right overarching concepts.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Joanna and Solange and Kanye all had in common was a mental image of what the sound is supposed to be. As a collaborator, my goal has to be to help them get toward that mental image. That was cool.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intense study with Indian musicians such as Gaurav Majumdar and Zakir Hussain has inspired me to rethink my view of instrumental sound.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020