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Sound Quotes

I heard the bullets whistle- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

A sound nation is built of individuals sound in body and mind and spirit. Government dares not ignore the individual citizen.

The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound, and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

I especially love the pump organ on "Walkin' on the Road (to the Future)" and "The Wonder Won't Wait"-it adds this wheezing, groaning sound. It's almost as though another person, another set of lungs, is suddenly in the room.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

Allowing valuable sound recordings to pass into the public domain does not create a public asset: it represents a massive destruction of U.K. wealth and a significant loss to the U.K. taxpayer.

It take a joyful sound to make a world go round.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the "Blonde on Blonde" album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That's my particular sound. I haven't been able to succeed in getting it all the time. Mostly I've been driving at a combination of guitar, harmonica and organ.

Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry.

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.