Quotes About Sound

I recorded 'Play God' in a shed. I don't know how we got it to sound as good as it did.

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that's like, 'Damn, this sounds like my music!'

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

I can make the best fart noises. I can make, like, 10 different sounds at different levels.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.

I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.

I take sounds and change them into words.

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.