Top 520 Sound Quotes

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
Jean Kerr
The connection of what I do to flamenco lies in the whole lament, whole cry, whole pouring back into the earth and giving energy back to the earth. It’s a cry and a celebration. That’s what music, sound, vibration should do. It should spark energy in someone.
Savion Glover
It will sound quite weird but I actually watch TLC as I love to travel. It’s like sitting in your drawing room and traveling to a new world.
Vishwajeet Pradhan
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?
Dave Grohl
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Plato
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
John Irving
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
George Lucas
Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.
Brian Eno
Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there’s no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.
Keith Jarrett
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
Linda Ellerbee
I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn’t get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.
Vangelis
It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.
Alexander Graham Bell
It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.
Aurora
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’
Yolanda Adams
I don’t go to clubs. I don’t know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.
Kenny G
I like music that’s more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
Iggy Pop
I was a fan of the group. I thought they were great – loved The Eagles – but I thought that their beautiful harmonies would sound amazing with some rock guitar behind them.
Joe Walsh
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Nigel Short
Never play anything that don’t sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won’t get hostile with yourself.
Hoagy Carmichael
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I

I didn’t do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me – does that sound selfish?
Jack Kevorkian
Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it’s just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who’s so creative on the drums, and lately it’s been really good, especially during sound checks.
Mike Gordon
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
Ben Stein
A lot of people told me that I’m committing musical suicide with my sound.
Kid Rock
If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there’s a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.
George Lucas
Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
Bill Frist
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
Ann Beattie
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.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Because I don’t play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Cat Stevens
I’m fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound: a sound that won’t dissipate over time. Essentially, the opposite of a piano, because the notes never fade. I suppose, in literary terms, it would be like a metaphor for eternity.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
I really love the sound of my dog snoring.
Chris Evans
I still think that I’m playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It’s interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
Ikue Mori
Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.
Roy Wood
The political classes are despised when they deal in sound bites, embrace tokenistic campaigns and feather their own nests while trying to please all of the people all of the time.
Ann Widdecombe
And I’ll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
My parents had a software company making children’s software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.
Bre Pettis
One of the greatest sounds of them all – and to me it is a sound – is utter, complete silence.
Andre Kostelanetz
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
The blues – the sound of a sinner on revival day.
William Christopher Handy
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public’s going to like, anyway.
B. B. King
It’s funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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
How You Like That’ has Blackpink’s own color and it’s more powerful than the previous songs. We tried to put in pop, rock and hip-hop aspects in it. Orchestral sound in the beginning is very impressive.
Jisoo
It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Max Frisch