Quotes About Sound

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

I was never part of the Bristol scene. My sound was a Knowle West sound. Massive Attack wouldn't come to my area because they know they'd have got beaten up there.

Seattle, they like the Bay a lot. They like the Bay area sound, the West Coast sound.

Genesis means the beginning. But I put the A instead of the E because I didn't wanna be criticized in church and nothing like that. And it means the beginning, but in my city, I'm the only person that's on the West Coast that has a different sound, so I was thinking to myself, 'This the beginning of a new sound, a new person.'

I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn't like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South.

West Coast hip hop was the sound of my neighbourhood. It was something I could relate to because it had a sound that felt like my surroundings - almost more so than what they were saying. That music was made to be bumped in a Cadillac!

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

I've tried lots of different guitars, including some Lados, and they felt great and were really well made, but the sound just seemed to lack richness in the bottom end. My main Precision is a '71, and I also have a '59 that I don't use very often.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.

Everything I do is in a New York state of mind. I'm indebted to preserving the sound of the city.

I think my ear is pretty good, but I don't have formal training so my ear isn't that good. I know when I like a sound.

I have a pretty good ear.

I actually think I've got a pretty good horror scream.

I feel like I've mastered Dave East. For a long time I was trying to figure out who I was and what sound I wanted to come with.

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

I would describe my sound in the field of electro pop. A combination of deep yet simple lyrics coupled with easy beats.

My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.

It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes.

I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.

Heart means something, especially in Gotham City, where the only thing worse than a scrub is someone devoid of that thumping sound inside the chest.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

The sound of tap is not 'clickety clickety tap tap,' this monotone thing. The sound of tap has depth. We want you to hear the different highs and lows, the bass, the trebles and the melodies, if you can.

If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.