Sound Quotes - Page 27

• Oh my gosh! I can't tell you the number of times people have put autotune on my voice, and I'm like, 'Please take it off!' You don't even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot!

  Leona Lewis

  Numbers, Voice, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I sound like I'm enjoying myself, it's not artificial. It's real.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Enjoy, Artificial

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• When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wedding, Race, Tolls

  "Dearly Beloved". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1962.

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• I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Investment, Borrowed Money, Has Beens

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.

  Stacy London

  Coffee, Thinking, Yellow

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• But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Inspirational, Dance, Ideas

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• I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

  Christian Louboutin

  Attitude, Mean, Shoes

  "Christian Louboutin: How killer heels conquered fashion". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

  Christian Louboutin

  Voice, Fans, Band

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• I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Voice, Fans

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• The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Sound And Music, Actors

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• I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

  John Lydon

  Giving Up, Eye, Musician

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• Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

  John Lydon

  Song, Mean, Ideas

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

  John Lydon

  Fall, Feelings, Noise

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• More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, People, Computer

  "The Visionary". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2008.

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• The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

  David Lynch

  Cinema, World, Bigs

  "The Visionary". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

  David Lynch

  Space, Littles, Ruins

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• I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

  Loretta Lynn

  Thinking, Usa, United States

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.1, Vintage

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• Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Ideas, Clarity, Music Is

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• There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Effort, Trying, Might

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Children, Games, Fantastic

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• Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Fleeting, Ephemeral

  "The Big Interview: Yo-Yo Ma pays back his debt to Toronto", by Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. May 25, 2012.

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• If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

  Seth MacFarlane

  Song, Python, Example

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• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

  Harold MacMillan

  Ideas, Usual, Mixtures

  Speech to London Conservatives, 7 Mar. 1961, in The Times 8 Mar. 1961

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• I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Giving

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• The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

  Gustav Mahler

  Love, Rocks, Hollow

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