Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.

Fetty Wap

I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Francois Rabelais

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

Geoffrey Rush

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

George Herbert

Emptie vessels sound most.

Christine Baranski

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct

Grover Cleveland

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

Graham Greene

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

Holly Near

... when I am willing, all sound is available to me ...

Iggy Pop

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.

Iggy Pop

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

Rick Wakeman

I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited.

Jean Philippe Rameau

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

Jeffrey Kluger

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

Jim Gaffigan

Bacon's the best. Even the frying of bacon sounds like applause.

And you have to visualize it in three dimensions. Because that's the way sound behaves.

Walt Whitman

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

Nigella Lawson

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

Norah Jones

Your limitations create your sound.

Nicole Kidman

I'm spontaneous. I jump in. I kind of like getting married and then getting to know each other; I know that it sounds incredibly strange, but to me, it's a more natural process.

Michael Aspel

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

Serena Williams

I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.

Michael Pitt

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

Sidney Lanier

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

Scott Stapp

Creed's sound is my sound.

Madonna Ciccone

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

Lucretius

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

Liz Phair

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

Michel de Montaigne

Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.

Mark Twain

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.