Best Sound Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.”

Knows Needs Long Shows Age Sound Path Come Up New Age Stay True

Author:Jane Lynch

“I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.”

Reason Sound Water Drink Hearing

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.”

Knows Believe Jobs Sound Know How Don't Believe Ridiculous Romanticism Make Believe

Author:Laura Marling

“So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.”

Way Long Sound Week Mail Long Way Fax

Author:Marian McPartland

“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.”

Feels Years Different Ends Play Actors Bits Sound Five Four Sick Silly Muscles Five Years Drained Cobwebs

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.”

Thinking Kind Sound Style Ears Towns Pumps

Author:Michael McKean

“There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.”

Should Sound Albums Versions No Point

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.”

Sound Changed Studios Producers Never Change

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.”

Knows Years Would Be Used Song Sound Party My Friends Guitar

Author:Teena Marie

“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.”

Trying Firsts Hard Wanted Individual Sound Needed Fit Unique Really Happy One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.”

Sound Theatre Backgrounds Dodgers Sound Of Music

Author:Ben Nicholas

“For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.”

Matter Difficult Sound Impressive

Author:Dave Navarro

“I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.”

People Long Country Whole Song Sound Long Time Pops Labels Long Time Ago Gave Up Pop Song

Author:David Nail

“I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.”

Stuff Sound Listening Hollies

Author:Graham Nash

“I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.”

People Used Sound Hearing Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.”

Feels Whole Song Sound Chance Simple Example Personality Tunes Bucks Straightforward Being Straightforward Bakersfield

Author:Juice Newton

“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

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

Firsts Bigs Eye Father Sound Records Player Listening Grew Band Grew Up Ears Jazz Caught Brown Illinois Tenors Coltrane Brownies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.”

Sound Universal Monsters Versions Disco Rave Monster Movie

Author:Mojo Nixon

“Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.”

Today Strong Nations Sound Growth Levels Economic Remains Typical Expansion Housing Economic Growth Housing Market Homeownership

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!”

Sometimes Body Girl Fun Sound Interesting Personality Shapes Models Size Cliche Quirky Brunette

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.”

Shows Sound Audience Fronts Terrified

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.”

Want Sound Numbers Lesbianism

Author:Jean O'Leary

“I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.”

Want Needs Littles Faces Song Sound Break Crazy My Favorite Your Face Bass Favorite Song

Author:Patrice O'Neal

“There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.”

Sound Pops Developing Chinese Definite Shocked American Music

Author:Paul Oakenfold

“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Running Romance Left Sound Rooms Typewriters

Author:Gene Fowler

“I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet.”

I Can Guy Sound Watches Sky Crazy Color Mountain Disappear Insanity Swallowing Watch Me

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.”

Play God Might Sound Crazy

Author:George Harrison

“A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.”

Way Certain Force Sound Effects Produce Letters Jew Rhythm Representatives Compelling Definite Sequence Mantras

Author:Sir John Woodroffe

“We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.”

“Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.”

Sound Prosperous

Author:Arthur Laffer

“Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.”

Thinking Sound Policy Wishful Thinking Public Policy

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.”

People Way Believe Certain Sound Prove

Author:Coco Lee

“I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.”

Enough Problem Sound Wise Tasks Notion Leaving Busy Attractive Lazy Lap Delegates Delegation

Author:John Ortberg

“I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.”

Ifs Knows Want Different Sound Honest Dad Mets My Family My Dad Horrible Being Honest Bother Mum

Author:Sally Pearson

“Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.”

Sound Projects Come Up Agents Managers

Author:Tyler Posey

“I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.”

Real Ends Sound Records Machines Consumers Factories Tape Mechanic Fidelity Real Education High Fidelity

Author:Alan Parsons

“This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.”

Facts Sound Truth Is Ordinary Extraordinary Statements

Author:Brian Perkins

“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.”

Want Kind Said Today Actors Sound Stupid Painting Conscious Painter Painting A Picture

Author:Franka Potente

“Free love sounds great.”

Sound Free Love

Author:Laura Prepon

“The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.”

Country Government Order Process Sound International Determined Finance Secure Reform Competitiveness Consolidation

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.”

Thinking Way Sound Growth Gains Labor Performances Bases Reform Combination Permanent Improving Unemployment Reducing Adjustment Sustaining

Author:Lucas Papademos

“Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.”

Sound Decision Vegas Las Vegas Bad Decision Bangkok

Author:Todd Phillips

“I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.”

Writing Enough Remember Felt Sound Scripts Life Experience Cheesy Nyu Writing Scripts

Author:Todd Phillips

“I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.”

Reason Fun Sound Drama Costumes

Author:Amy Ryan

“I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?”

Thinking Knows Trying Sound Existence Band Mature

Author:Adam Rich

“That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.”

Ifs Way Looks Happens Sound Cases Focus Worst Scenarios Worst Case Scenario Pollyanna Tripe

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.”

Feels Bigs Hate Actors Sound Voice Natural Watches Cameras Hearing Screens Video Movie Filmmaking Big Screen Video Cameras Hearing Your Voice

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.”

Want Sound Breathe Cinema Pretentious

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.”

Knows Should Believe I Believe Sound Know How Stage Vices Studios Performers Vice Versa

Author:Haley Reinhart

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