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“If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.”

Ifs Mean Sound Music Is Pops Noise Uncomfortable Pop Music

Author:Merzbow

“I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.”

People Want Mean Courses Sound Term Loss Nice Come Up Privacy Small Things Very Nice Anonymity Appreciative Nice People

Author:Todd Solondz

“People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.”

People Giving Mean Hard Care Sound Break Records Performances Hard Times Who Cares Groove

Author:Christian Marclay

“Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.”

Wells Mean Sound Tubes Circuits

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.”

People Thinking World Way Feels Mean Together Song Sound Clear And Love Feel Good Suits Melody Puzzles

Author:J. Robbins

“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.”

May Mean Art Feelings Form Sound Lines Movement Color Expression Activity Oneself Evoke

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Feelings Sound Term My Own Expression Paint Dislike Cult Isms Expressionism Exponents

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.”

People Thinking Want May Mean Jobs Certain Sound Born Simple Class Conditions Perspective Betrayal Betray

Author:Thomas Frank

“I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know they aren't make-believe. They illustrate something about life. This is my major concern whenever I select a film”

Knows Believe Mean Film Sound Majors Concern Universal Lists Select July Make Believe Grandiose Schindler Schindler's List

Author:Embeth Davidtz

“By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.”

Believe Mean Children Earth I Believe Sound Voice Example Wind Streams Take Time Suggestions Thunder Surf Majestic

Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.”

Should Humans Mean Sound Human Beings One Thing Birth Factors Bleak Unifying

Author:Nick Cave

“Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.”

World Mean Sound Wonder Singing My Favorite Singers Favorite Singer

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”

Thinking Mean Form Sound Color Painting Instruments Sake Drawing Excitement Palette

Author:John French Sloan

“I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.”

Thinking Way Mean Ideas Done Sound Knowing Environment Imagine Goes On Details Contemporary Abstract Imagine That Contemporary Music Knowing More

Author:John Cage

“Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.”

Ifs Mean Said Sound Higher They Said Jargon

Book:The Jargon of Authenticity

Source: The Jargon of Authenticity