Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change..

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make..

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this..

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it..

I don't join or leave things lightly..

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters.

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar -….

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack..

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words..

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy..

When you have to work, work with a smile..

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned..

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good..

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis..

I do what I do because I love it..

One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much mor….

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat..

I could have coached better..

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone..

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I kno….

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong..