Top 520 Sound Quotes

I didn’t really like my Sydney accent – nobody likes the sound of their own voice – and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I’ve only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven’t been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.
Callan McAuliffe
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Bertolt Brecht
I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe m

I used to be afraid to use the word ‘pop’ to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there’s some fun.
Elle King
So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.
Stephan Jenkins
It’s very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.
Steve Lacy
I came from an era when we didn’t use electronic instruments. The bass wasn’t even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
Stan Getz
Let’s get one thing straight: there’s no such thing as the Bristol sound.
Beth Gibbons
We can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good… Meals on Wheels sounds great.
Mick Mulvaney
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
Billie Joe Armstrong
When it comes to a specific sound, I don’t feel like there’s something I need to worry about. I’d much rather do something creative and credible. Like, ‘Who am I? What am I trying to say? What do I stand for?’ I stand for all of it, because I feel all of it, like everybody.
Aldous Harding
What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.
Jonathan Ive
When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.
Aurora
If someone says ‘grunge’ or ‘punk,’ you know what the sound is, but if you say ‘No Wave,’ it’s kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it… here’s this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.
Lydia Lunch
I remember going out alone in a canoe. Somebody told me to lie in the bottom of the canoe and just drift. It was a small lake and I was perfectly safe. So I did that, and I drifted. It was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, I heard a loon cry the first time I ever heard that marvelous sound.
Lorne Greene
What I’ve learned how to do as I’ve gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I’ve ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.
Wynton Marsalis
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
Jimmy Smith
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi
Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.
Sigmar Gabriel
I kind of muddled through ‘Pride & Prejudice,’ but with ‘Atonement,’ I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts – I didn’t know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.
Joe Wright
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
Maimonides
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
Joshua Leonard
Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.
Tay Keith
I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way, I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock was my other early obsession – ‘Psycho’ and its score. So there was the sense of trying to create an atmosphere: how a sound resonates and makes an effect.
Siouxsie Sioux
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Lady Bird Johnson
I don’t want to sound cocky or anything, but I work hard. I work 24/7.
Corrine Brown
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’
Pat Summitt
The song ‘Gave It All Away’ has a reggae sound.
Ronan Keating
Presents don’t really mean much to me. I don’t want to sound mawkish, but – it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
Gabriel Byrne
It’s a 360-degree sound experience. Like you’re in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
Aaron Neville
That’s my contribution – running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well and employs hundreds of thousands of people. What else am I going to do? I’m not an artist. I’m not a writer. I’m not a musician. I’d love to be a tennis player or musician. I’m not.
Jamie Dimon
My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.
Dick Dale
Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
Arthur Eddington
I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don’t know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that’s just a gift they have.
Ana Gasteyer
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
Sam Phillips
As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
John C. Bogle
We invented words; we’ll tell you how they’re supposed to sound.
John Oliver
I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I’m doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I want them to know that I can compete globally, with whomever, in Spanish.
J Balvin
I think it’s not only Babymetal’s sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of expressing this genre of music.
Moa Kikuchi
Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There’s no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he’s doing an acting job.
Joan Rivers
This may sound conceited, but the more predominant the role, the more comfortable I am on set.
Zoe Bell
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
Reed Hastings
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
George Jean Nathan
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost
Of course, if you’re gonna make a rap song, you’re gonna want to sound like Melle Mel.
Ad-Rock
One of my favorites is ‘The Sound of Music’. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.
Mark Roberts
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
Amy Purdy
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller
I don’t think we’ll ever use the same sound techniques.
Ann Wilson
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, ‘They’re just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don’t.’ Gee, I sound shallow. But I don’t react to current events or other stimuli. I don’t read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
Gary Larson
If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
George Bernard Shaw
You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It’s all about the inflection.
Willie Nelson
PUP introduced me to so much more amazing music. They really shaped my sound.
Finn Wolfhard
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don’t believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
Daniel Barenboim
When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.
Frank James
I don’t like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.
Bill Hader
It’s the group sound that’s important, even when you’re playing a solo.
Oscar Peterson
Don Cornelius gave me an incredulous look regarding my accent. I lessened it; he gave a nod of approval. Instantly, I felt ashamed. I had made my first conscious effort not to sound ethnic.
Rosie Perez
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
As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.
Noam Chomsky