Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chad Smith

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Charles Ives

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Bob Black

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Bill Laswell

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Herbie Hancock

You don't know what that's going to sound like; you just do it because the urge is there.

Casey Abrams

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Carl Jung

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Calvin Trillin

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Calvin Trillin

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

Elizabeth Olsen

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Benjamin Franklin

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Avril Lavigne

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

Bill Frist

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Benmont Tench

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

Bob Mould

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

A lot of the stories you read make it sound like there's uncertainty. There's not uncertainty.

Tallulah Bankhead

They made me sound as if I'd been castrated.

They say it makes me sound like a moron.

Dick Armey

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dexter Gordon

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

George H. W. Bush

Actually, I...this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about...when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

The sound of it was just brutal. It was just brutal.

Sean Mackin

Some (throat nodules) end people's careers. You know, like, you'll never sound the same if you have the surgery.

Richard Thompson

sound like they're being sung to just one person.

Gene Vincent

It was the sound that got to me,

Walt Whitman

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world

You really feel like you are a part of 'The Sound of Music' when you are here.

Brandon Sanderson

It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found." "The truth?" Sazed said. "No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.

Brian Jacques

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

Jane Hirshfield

as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.

Jane Goodall

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Charles Darwin

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.