Explore Quotes on Sound

Those 20 silents we made grossed a few million each and the early sound pictures did very well.

It's music that is made to be listened to, not just heard. And it's got to be natural. Someone like Nick Drake is a classic example. You almost fall in love with his sound because you feel he's not doing it for you. He's not even doing it for himself. It's something that just happens and even he doesn't know how to control it.

It's interesting, now we have these huge TVs with wonderful sound and so on at home, we're awash with wonderful dramas from so many different sources that you can sit and enjoy with family or friends, and explore characters over two years via really sharp writing.

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

I hate the beep beep of the car, when I put in motion and I have not fasten my seat belt. From how annoying this sound is to me every morning, I understand immediately how the day will be.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love the way those albums sound, but I want to make records that sound like that in the way I like to make stuff.

I don't know what the sound is or the song is until I've spent a lot of time on it. I'm always chipping away at it, rethinking it.

Somewhere between this kind of cruising freedom, and this understated moment where all these little things intertwine to create a bigger sound. You don't want one thing to be bright, or too prevalent.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

The Smith Center is a theater where you want to keep the lights on. The acoustics are amazing, and this is a stage that was built for sound.

Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

I found my sound through exploring. I was in the studio yelling, going low, trying things, and that's how I found that I have a lot of sounds.