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Quotes About Sound

To be honest, I don't really like arenas. It's not easy to make the sound good, or to perform in them.
~ Oliver Sykes
Our emotions are constantly being propelled by some new face in the sky, some new rocket to the moon, some new sound in the ear, but they are the same emotions.
~ Merce Cunningham
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.
~ Charles Hazlewood
Condition your puppy to a positive sound, such as a shaking treat cup or a clicker.
~ Sarah Hodgson
Do you still snore as loudly as you used to?" "I don't know," said Branwise, taking the question too seriously. "When I'm asleep I can't hear myself.
~ Sarah Kozloff
Do you still snore as loudly as you used to?" "I don't know," said Branwise, taking the question too seriously. "When I'm asleep I cain't hear myself.
~ Sarah Kozloff
He began to laugh again, a croaking, rasping vile sound that made me want to stop my ears with my fingers.
~ Sarah Monette
My voice was deeper than his, husky and rasping, like the caw of a crow.
~ Sarah Monette
Just then, a reversal occurred in which the key turned suddenly in the lock. That is the most comforting sound in a person's life, isn't it? When the other uses his own key to finally come home. Behind
~ Sarah Schulman
He had the organ on a set of pram wheels; it appeared to be held together with string. Its sound was so raw and almost discordant that the music seemed not so much to be rising from the box as tumbling out of it, as if the notes were physical things of glass or metal, landing clanging at the man's feet.
~ Sarah Waters
She tells me of her journey, of the train from London—when she says the word, London, she seems conscious of the sound; I suppose she is not in the habit of naming it, of considering it a place of destination or desire.
~ Sarah Waters
Just as pictures and the intervals between them create the illusion of time through closure, words introduce time by representing that which can only exist in time--sound.
~ Scott McCloud
Then came the pak-pak-pak of DeVontay's rifle.
~ Scott Nicholson
He spoke again, slowly this time, and though his words sounded the same as before and meant nothing to me, they now seemed sweet. They were the sound of a human voice. There is no sound like this in all the world.
~ Scott O'Dell
If my mind could have made a sound, it would have burst a row of wineglasses.
~ Scott Spencer
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. (2 Tim. 4:2–3 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.
~ George Strait
With all tools at my disposal, I'm 100% into chasing tone and checking out new equipment and "geeking" out during sound check by taking too much time.
~ John Petrucci
They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else to drown it out at the time?
~ Karl Pilkington
It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
~ Eliot Spitzer
That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
~ A. R. Rahman
At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
~ Andrei Platonov
More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.
~ Beth Revis
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
~ Bradford Cox