Quotes About Sound

When something is coming off of a Neve board and being laid down on tape, it's like a warm blanket for the brain. When you're working in a digital form, it's so harsh; it's almost painful. Your ears get more fatigued if you're mixing all day.

I'm not going for a soft sound. I ain't lookin' for a warm sound. My sound is warm, but I don't need tubes to do it. The Randall RG-100 is the best amp for what I do.

If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.

What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm but also very cold.

Rock shows are loud, so I try to use a sound that is warm on the high frequencies.

I have to have sound in my ears for 10 minutes prior. I come to the theater early, two hours, just to calm down and warm up.

There's a warmth, obviously, with vinyl that you just don't get with CDs.

Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.

I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's what I think about. Like, I listen to guitar players every day: Warren Haynes, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, different people. And I'm always trying to find out a way how I can get my trombone to sound like that.

The journey begins by looking inside to find that guiding light of the Divine spark within us. The practice that leads us to that spark is meditation on the inner light and sound

and could hear her susurrus breath sounding like leaves stirring

Sound is the hard currency; meaning is the network of cultural and formal conventions that turns it into a stick of gum at the candy store.

Moving in the conventional direction, phonetics concerns the acoustic dimensions of linguistic sound. Phonology studies the clustering of those acoustic properties into significant cues. Morphology studies the clustering of those cues into meaningful units. Syntax studies the arrangement of those meaningful units into expressive sequences. Semantics studies the composite meaning of those sequences.

of the ocean and the sound of the water lapping

I'm constantly buying records.

Nothing could capture the sound of Dick Dale - he was too loud.

Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.

All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 'cause I like the way the drums sound.

I like things that catch your ears.

We are kind of country, but we do cater to louder kinds of music.

I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.

The darned thing about mandolins is they're really hard to turn up as loud as you would need to be to play with a drum set. They cease to sound like mandolins.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

I live in Chicago, and I play in a band there.