Quotes About Sound

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?

Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.

There were certain things in 'Nemo' - just this low hum of ocean and watery sound - that was enough to imply water, as opposed to restating it over and over again.

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but an organ and a saxophone.

We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.

What can often happen when doing accents is that you go too far to one extreme, so it becomes a caricature. It's important to bring an accent back to a natural organic place so you're still speaking like you would speak, just the sound is different. But your rhythms are not.

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.

It's not about what's a good or bad score at the Oscars, rather what's exposed to the ears more.

My biggest inspiration was the music of Slumdog Millionaire.' The music that Rahman tried had such an Indian sound, but that didn't stop it from winning two Oscars.

I like that outlaw crossover rock 'n' roll-country sound.

When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.

Music is the structure of the invisible," she says.

Singing is just doing interesting things to the air. Elongating it and twisting it into shapes.

Songs are really just interesting things to be doing with the air

Watson recorded that he "could unmistakably hear the tones of [Bell's] voice and almost catch a word now and then.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.