Quotes About Sound

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

During our first year, we were playing Priest and Maiden cover tunes all the time while we figured out what we wanted to do as a band. At the time I was getting out of metal and into punk. That's how Slayer's sound came together - it's the speed of punk combined with the big riffs of metal.

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy.

Didgeridoo is a name that white people gave it when they came to Australia, from the sound that it makes. Its traditional name is yidaki.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

'The Woman on the Train' just didn't sound as good. I'll take care next time not to have 'girl' in the title.

Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.

I never made a distinction, really, between music and sound. Let me explain what I mean by that. I grew up near to a train station, and the sound of the trains became a very important part of my world. It was a very musical sound to me.

That's probably the key to our success and our longevity, sticking to our formula and what we do best, the hardcore Mobb Deep sound, rather than chasing trains. But we're always experimenting with the art and the creativity of hip-hop.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.

I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.

You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.

The Hindus say, 'Nada brahma,' one translation of which is, 'The world is sound.' And in a way, that's true, because everything is vibrating.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.

The best dancer appeared to be considered the one who could whoop the loudest, jump the farthest, and utter the most excruciating noise.

The sound of the click, then the sound of Victoria's scream, then the sound of Victoria falling sideways to the floor.