Sound Quotes - Page 23

• There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

  Bono

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

  Kate Bosworth

  Stronger, Sides, Hindsight

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• Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

  Paul Engle

  Children, Church Bells, Iowa

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

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• If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

  Brian Eno

  Use, Fabulous, Bother

  "How People Like Brian Eno Come Into Existence" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. March 7, 2009.

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• For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

  Brian Eno

  Lines, Firsts, Kind

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• I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

  Brian Eno

  Complicated, Rich, Boxes

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• The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Delay, Touring, Equipment

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

  Paul Feig

  Simple, Awards, Years

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• So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

  Martin Feldstein

  Thinking, Judgement, Want

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• Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.

  Bobby Flay

  Moving, Thinking, Fire

  Bobby Flay (2007). “Bobby Flay's Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire!”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

  E. M. Forster

  Civilization, Mind, Foundation

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

  Gene Fowler

  Running, Writing, Thinking

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• That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Worst Case Scenario, Focus, Looks

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• Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.

  Thomas Frank

  Jobs, Issues, Political

  The Real Danger of 'One Big Regulator'" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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

  Robert Frost

  Music, May

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.141, Harvard University Press

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• German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Beautiful, People, Hebrew

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• A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Might, Conservative

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• I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

  Barry Gibb

  Night, Records, Littles

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• Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

  Ben Gibbard

  Girlfriend, Wife, Together

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

  Mel Gibson

  Successful, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Gibson on 'The Passion'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Communication, Interesting, Music Is

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• I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Play, Orchestra, Bass

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• We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

  Jane Goodall

  Language, Teach, Communicate

  "Chimps with everything: Jane Goodall's 50 years in the jungle". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• I’m a better person in a relationship, and I’m a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Motivation, Character, Home

  "Not So Goodwin". Interview with Danielle Stein, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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• As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

  Ryan Gosling

  Kids, Guy, Tough

  "October Release: Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams". www.wmagazine.com. September 23, 2010.

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