Sound Quotes - Page 29

• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

  Nas

  Strong, Memories, Rap

  "Nas, Damian Marley Dig For Rap's African Roots". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 13, 2009.

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• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  Ednita Nazario

  Country, Latin, Rocks

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• It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

  Joe Nichols

  Country, Trying, Labels

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• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sexy, Boring, Accents

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• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Swings

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• I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  "Gary Numan answers your questions" by Adam Boult, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.

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• This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Halloween, Candy Corn

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• The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, Party, Government

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• Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Book

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• Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Listening

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• In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  Barack Obama

  Responsible Business, Class, Environmental

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• My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

  Conor Oberst

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

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• On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.

  Conor Oberst

  Eye, Attention, Records

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• It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.

  Apolo Ohno

  Soul, Kind, Patches

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• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  Yoko Ono

  Heart, Different, Alive

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• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Age, Desire

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• The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

  George Osborne

  Party, Men, Benches

  "More Blairite than Tony" by Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

  Joel Osteen

  Class, Want, Firsts

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• This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

  Patton Oswalt

  College, Eggs, Two

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• 'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

  Michael Palin

  Nice, Mean, Swear

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• I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

  Anna Paquin

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  "Anna Paquin's All-Day Energy Secrets". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.foxnews.com. June 03, 2012.

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• If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

  Robert Pattinson

  Running, War, People

  "Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Wild Rid". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 4, 2009.

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• Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

  Les Paul

  Beautiful, Thinking, Wife

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• Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

  Jane Pauley

  Now And Then, Barbara, Notion

  "Jane Pauley Says Goodbye". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com.

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• I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

  Alexander Payne

  Thinking, Watches, Film

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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