Sound Quotes - Page 31

• This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beach, Gone, Village

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• I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

  Winona Ryder

  Book, Records, Hitting

  Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Long, People

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• Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Men, Self

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Way, Doe, Conducting

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• Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Wall, Order

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• Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?

  Jerry Saltz

  Mean, Artist, Style

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• 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.

  Carlos Santana

  Spiritual, Heart, People

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• This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Believe, May

  "Coffee talk: Katie Couric interviews Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tonight". CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.

  Howard Schultz

  Strong, Thinking, Self

  "Starbucks legend delivers recovery by thinking smaller". Interview with David Teather, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, Color, People

  "Q&A: James Cameron & Martin Scorsese". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Past, Our World

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• The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, Important, Storytelling

  "What Inspires Martin Scorsese". Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

  Bob Seger

  Commitment, Light, People

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• 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.

  Brian Setzer

  Stupid, Voice, Dumb

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• I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Sexy, Lucky, Littles

  "Chloe Sevigny Disses Peaches Geldof; Knows Nothing About Edie Sedgwick". Interview with Playboy, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. December 23, 2010.

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• I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.

  Sarah Shahi

  Sexy, Smart, Definitions

  "Up Close with Sarah Shahi". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

  Tommy Shaw

  Band, Clubs, Owners

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• I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Running, Yoga, Everyday

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• I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rolling, Band, Stones

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.11, Penguin

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• The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rocks, Creating, Giving

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• When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Dream, Lonely

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• My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Husband, Night, Sound Doctrine

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• A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

  Nigel Short

  Confused, Sacrifice, Opponents

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• I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.

  Gene Simmons

  Being Alone, Voice, People

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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