Sound Quotes - Page 34

• The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Unique, Zombie

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

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• When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

  Betty White

  Kindness, Animal, Thinking

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

  Betty White

  Long, Doe, Broadway

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.91, Penguin

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• I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

  Ron White

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

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• When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

  Dallas Willard

  Plato, Philosophy, Crazy

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• I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

  Lucinda Williams

  Power, Trying, Corny

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• The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

  Saul Williams

  Powerful, Voice, Political

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• On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

  A. N. Wilson

  Memories, Regret, Night

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• I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

  Rainn Wilson

  Art, Book, Museums

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• I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.

  Henry Winkler

  Photography, Directors, Credit

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• I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

  Reese Witherspoon

  June, Trying

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• I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.

  Tom Wolfe

  Light, Two, Long

  "The liberal elite hasn't got a clue". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.

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• I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

  Stevie Wonder

  Reading, Thinking, Boston

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

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• With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

  Neil Young

  Horse, Crazy, Surfing

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• I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kings, Different, Way

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• I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Flying, Wizards

  Interview with David Gralnik, collider.com. August 25, 2009.

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• Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

  John Zorn

  Mean, Preparation, Rehearsal

  "Interview hits dissonant chord with John Zorn" by Lee Hildebrand, www.sfgate.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

  Julian Baggini

  Simple, Two, Different

  "Don't complain less - do it better" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2010.

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• The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.

  Julian Baggini

  Teaching, Philosophical, Buddhism

  "Can a religion survive being stripped of its superstitions?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2012.

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• The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

  Francis Collins

  Trying, Downgrading, Connotation

  "Francis Collins on Making Life". Interview with Robert Krulwich, www.pbs.org. October 1, 2005.

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  Felix Dennis

  Crazy, Thinking, Ideas

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• It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.

  Greg Graffin

  Artist, Style, Null

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• The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Elements, Harmony

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• I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Hate, People, Listening

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

  John Oliver

  Laughing, Comedian, Realizing

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