Quotes with sounds

  • The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
  • Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
  • I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
  • This is the news theme, but it sounds like pure Hollywood entertainment. It sounds like E.T. on a horse being chased by Darth Vader, which is something I'd love to see.
  • Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
  • She entered his dreams sane and left mad. She began with words of love and ended with sounds that frightened him.
  • I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
  • Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard
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  • Aaron Neville It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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  • Bill Laswell What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Benny Blanco Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • A. E. Housman And silence sounds no worse than cheers
    After earth has stopped the ears.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Mary Lou Retton As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American film screenwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American screenwriter and songwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Bun E. Carlos Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Billy Eichner Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
    Billy Eichner
    American comedian, actor, and producer (1978 - )
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  • Donald Trump Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Bennett Cerf For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Bennett Cerf For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Bruno Mars Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Colette I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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  • W. H. Auden I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bruno Mars I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Napoleon I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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