Quotes About Comparison

Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

I only get compared to women, which is crazy because often the women they compare me to... we just have a similar hairstyle. Whether it's Joni Mitchell or Florence and the Machine - our music doesn't always sound anything alike. But we just all have long hair.

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

I'ma sound like all your favorite rappers.

I used to be mad, at first, that I couldn't sound like Ice Cube. And I think that was probably one of the best things for me.

Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'

Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

'Mortal Kombat,' the first arcade one, that soundtrack sounds like a Chick Corea album.

If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

South Africa and Brazil are very similar. We have the same social problems, same issues and same growing economies.

I guess the thing with South Africa and Australia, the conditions are probably the two most similar around the world. The pace in the wickets are generally pretty similar, and the pace and bounce.

I look at South Africa and look around Europe and ask: are those places better to be black than the U.K.? I don't think so. It doesn't mean everything is perfect.

German football is very different to football in South America.

I think Hungarians should be more positive; many complain, but if they go to some countries, in South America, people are so poor, yet they are happy. It starts with you.

The Middle East and South Asia have a lot less in common with America than 18-year-old kids in Boston have with 18-year-old kids in Arkansas.

North Korea is not even close to being a near peer to South Korea or, much less, the United States.

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.