Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonny Lang

When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda just let it happen and it's not really any work. I love those moments. Nothing can beat that for me.

John Cage

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot,

John Cage

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

Eric Ripert

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Elliott Smith

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

Elliott Smith

Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.

Elmore Leonard

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

Jonathan Safran Foer

And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again.

Oscar de la Renta

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.

Oliver Sacks

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.

Mason Cooley

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

Mark Ronson

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

Ted Cruz

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

Louise Erdrich

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

Louise Erdrich

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

Martin Clunes

The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

Jimi Hendrix

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

John Irving

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

Neal Stephenson

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

Serena Williams

I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.

Michael Pitt

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

Sidney Lanier

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

John Frusciante

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

John Oliver

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

John Badham

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

John Mayer

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

John Mahoney

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

John Lyly

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

John Lydon

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

Jimmy Carr

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

George Lucas

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

Ellie Goulding

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.