Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.
Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.
I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.
Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.
I don't sound like other people. My voice isn't as loud and can't do certain things athletically.
It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.
I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.
You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.
People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.
If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
