Quotes About Sound

So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it.

I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

I think there are records that will sell, and I think what makes a record sell is a continuity of sound.

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.

It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

I think I make good beats, but when it's not mastered correctly, it can definitely make it sound like it's not a good beat, and that has been an issue sometimes with me in the past.

I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.

For me, having played the game of football, I look at it through a much different lens. I don't look at it from a fan's perspective. I'm always trying to analyze and critique things when I'm watching sporting events. That's why I never have the sound on.

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

I am a very talented belcher. Very deep and bassy.

Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.