Quotes About Sound

When that punk strain came to Britain and infected everyone. It was more than just a sound. There was an ethos, an ethic that went with it.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

The silence is screaming out for noise.

Inside those waves our voices bounced back at us, deeper and larger for all the noise, like the voices of men.

Leo laughs. It has the too bright, clear sound of someone who has to laugh a lot professionally.

In the fall of 1887, Ed Curtis and his father arrived in the Puget Sound area, which was opening up to land opportunists after treaties had removed most of the Indian, and all of the British, claims to the region.

The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound.

Tiff needed the words on the page to become the voice in her head, her own voice, or an approximation of it, and she needed the paper and the sound of the scratch of her chapped fingertips against it as she fiddled with each page.

But opposing evil requires inspiration by what is sound rather than by what is resonant.

This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. ...But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at putting different sound chips in the dolls heading there [Britain].

I used to do interviews - I still do - interviews every day, all day. And you go from maybe doing a couple of professional interviews, where you can hear the sound right, to everyone else sounds like they're at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.

Every continent on Earth has a form of bullroarer - it's the oldest instrument known to man.

I've been working in radio on and off for most of my career. There's a restfulness about it. It's more focused on the voice, so you don't have to worry about extraneous things like sound effects, as there's someone there to look after that.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

I mean, take 'Chariots Of Fire.' That opening scene, the long shot of the runners along the beach, and then you hear that music... I think that was one of the first times synthesizers were really used in movie music. I just flipped! I didn't even care what the story was going to be. Give me a nice marriage of sound and music.

A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.