Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

John Cage

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot,

John Cage

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

Elliott Smith

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

Elliott Smith

Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.

Elmore Leonard

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

Edgard Varese

Music is organized sound.

Eddie Condon

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

Hans Zimmer

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

Gordon Smith

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

John Mayer

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

John Mahoney

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

John Lyly

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

John Lydon

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

Jimmy Carr

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

George Lucas

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Avril Lavigne

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

Benmont Tench

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

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.