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“Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.”

Knows Sound Impossible Jimmy

Author:Benmont Tench

“I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.”

Humans Sound Impossible Poet Equal Tasks Originals Ancient Venture Rhyme Translations Closing Ingenuity Couplets

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.”

Ifs Littles Sound Deals Company Too Much Impossible Minutes Majors Edges Radio Noise Awful Little Things Frightening Traffic

Author:Elaine Paige

“I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.”

Ifs Thinking Past Sound Player Impossible Involved Studios Atmosphere Can Not Motown

Author:Elton John

“Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.”

Ifs Trying Looks Sound Impossible Painting Perceive Pathetic Describing

Author:John Lennox

“Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an explosion of brilliance and the world is more apparent in its complexity and beauty.”

World Feelings Pain Sound Impossible Color Wall Drug Sight Glasses Complexity Climbs Explosions Brilliance Feeling Pain

Book:Journey

Source: Journey

“I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.”

Knows Trying Long Sound Impossible Minutes Long Ago Pollyanna

Author:Eleanor Porter

“I once blurted out that I found it impossible to bond with my son Winston because I was too tired. I mean how bloody awful does that sound? What a tosser!”

Mean Doe Found Sound Impossible Son Tired Awful My Son Bloody Tossers

Author:Laurence Fox

“I'm going to show you a technology today which takes insults and criticisms out of the airwaves. (Marshall puts on giraffe ears) With this technology, it will be impossible for you to hear criticisms, harsh remarks, or insults. All you can hear is what all people are ever saying, "please" and "thank you". What used to sound like criticism, judgment, or blame, you will see, are really tragic, suicidal expressions of "please".”

“My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre.”

Years Hard Song Sound Progress Impossible Written Albums Genre Mature

Author:Asher Monroe

“When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth, it is therefore impossible for him to gather sound material with which to build a brain of stable construction.”

Body Passion Next Sound Brain Impossible Materials Seeds Atoms Construction Stable Rebirth Descent

Book:Occult principles of health and healing

Source: Occult principles of health and healing

“The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes.”

“Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)”

Littles Important Film Three Sound Space Impossible Influence Aspect Thirds Track Versions Genre Echoes Vocal Garage Sample Soundtracks Reggae Methodology Dance Music Jamaicans Sampling Dubstep

Author:Kode9

“There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.”

Way Beautiful Song Sound Nice Impossible Subjects Boring Lovely Contradiction Translate Jane Very Nice

Author:Agnes Varda