“I wanted to take my writing to another level. I wanted to write stuff that was personal for real. It's one thing to write a lyric that sounds nice in that line - that's not very tricky - but it's a different thing to write something that sounds nice and actually comes from someplace real.” WritingDifferentRealWantedStuffSoundLinesLevelsNiceOne ThingDifferent ThingsTricky Author:Tove Styrke
“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.” ShouldHumansMeanSoundHuman BeingsOne ThingBirthFactorsBleakUnifying Author:Nick Cave
“I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.” PeopleThinkingBookSoundOne ThingObviousI've LearnedReally CoolThings I've LearnedCool PeopleDorky Author:Kevin Sampsell
“The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.” PeopleWorldSoundVoiceMy OwnTalkingSeeingOne ThingHorribleVideoInterviewsTapeRevulsion Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.” WantFirstsSoundKnownOne ThingHorseTelephonesFirst LadyOperatorsSaddlesNotify Author:Jackie Kennedy
“One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.” PeopleWorldWellsIdeasGirlSoundWaterCompanyIssuesOne ThingProductsFemaleEmpowermentCleanMarketingHumanitarianJournalistLiteracyLike SomethingFemale EmpowermentClean WaterNew Products Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.” PeopleFeelsWritingMindHeartMayPlayMomentsStoriesStuffSoundVoiceCan DoVisionToo MuchOne ThingStreetsWalkingDrawsStartingNakedUrgesCopiesBad ThingsExposingStarting Out Author:Neil Gaiman
“Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating. And since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that the universe is music and should be perceived as such.” ShouldMatterUniverseSoundOne ThingFundamentalsVibrationsUnreasonable Author:Joachim-Ernst Berendt
“As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.” IfsWantUseFormSoundOne ThingStageShapesPerformancesAtmosphereImagery Author:Marilyn Manson
“I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingImportantSometimesMatterJobsEasySoundSimpleNovelOne ThingGiving UpImportant ThingsKeep GoingDiscouragedDistractedEasy To Get Author:Sarah Dessen
“There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you have a timbre which really is overtones - and making those things work together is one thing. The other thing is mechanical: If you can use your hands and arms to create sound on a fiddle, then learning to sing with it is like adding a third body part. And it's all training.” IfsHumansUseBodyHandsTogetherSoundVoiceOne ThingAirArmsTrainingThirdsNotesWorking TogetherFrequencyViolinFiddleHuman VoiceTimbre Author:Bruce Molsky
“It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?” WayMindLooksDoeDifferentEasySoundOne ThingGroupsShadowOrganizationMetaphorFamiliarVampireAgendasMisunderstood Author:Alan Ball
“I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate into the broader society and a lot of them, especially Irish Catholic did their best to sound like they were English rather than Irish by dropping and the O and the apostrophe.” SoundOne ThingEthicsCatholicWork EthicDroppingProtestantsProtestant Work Ethic Author:Steve King
“The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.” I CanProblemHouseSoundOne ThingSeaDrivingNuts Author:Thom Yorke
“It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.” IfsThinkingWaySongNextSoundVoiceInterestingLevelsNiceOne ThingUniqueSingingGuitarTrackBeing RealDiverseVocalTextureReally NiceAcousticsNext LevelSwitchingLushVocalistInstrumentationVoice Singing Author:Flume