Quotes About Sound

Hip hop minus plugged sounds can be a very different experience.

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

Sounds always fascinated me.

When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and mix.

Whatever sounds best to the ear, to the whole team of people who are producing the song, is what works eventually.

By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.

You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

I've never been one of those musicians to differentiate between acoustic and electronic sounds. I just see it all as sound sources to be used. This translates into my live shows as well.

It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow - I started learning melodies.

A live show is a room full of sound and people and now you have technology where people can film it and take it away and all that is lost afterwards but they have a souvenir.

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Sound is complex; there are many countervailing influences. It can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have to eat it and see what happens.

What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.

heartbeat the sound i must hearand listen