“The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.” KindMatterBeautifulSoundNo Matter WhatBottomBassBass PlayersBass GuitarPlaying Bass Author:Charlie Haden
“I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingFeelsTryingKindLittlesSoundStupidStartingCultLoftyStupid Things Author:Pete Holmes
“I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he can pull out a one-liner, but I couldn't do that. I didn't like the association. I mean, I love Steven Wright, but so many people started saying "Steven Wright" to me, and I would get mad, because I never wanted to be thought of as copying anybody.” PeopleKindMeanWantedGuySoundSubjectsMadComicAssociationOne LinerCopying Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.” KindTwoCountryThreeSoundPayAttentionAudienceRocksBeatsHistoricalWesternFolksHeavyRapPay AttentionMetalsCentsCultHeavy MetalCountry Western Author:Al Stewart
“Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.” KindMatterAgeWaitingSoundDarkNo Matter WhatClosetsBasementsWaiting For You Author:R. L. Stine
“You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you can learn anything you need to know about filmmaking- that's camera, sound, celluloid, video at this point- in four hours. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with it... It has to do with what you want to say. If you feel you have something to say, you'll find that way to get it said, on film, and not let anyone or anything chip away at that or tarnish it, because it's something special and precious.” IfsKnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsKindSaidFilmStrongSoundHoursFourSpecialCamerasWhat You WantVideoFilmmakerFilmmakingChipsSomething SpecialCelluloid Author:Martin Scorsese
“People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.” PeopleWantBelieveKindSoulWaitingSoundBlackTomsUntrueMusic Soul Author:Willis Earl Beal
“We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.” KindMayHas BeensTwoFeelingsSoundDarkConsciousnessWatchesHeardMinutesColorShotsLaysLoudRememberedEtcIntensityVividDistinguishedLuminousCannons Author:Charles Sanders Peirce
“A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.” KindCharacterFeelingsSoundCommonElementsJudgmentPerceptionCommon SenseSuccess In LifePolitenessTactSound Judgment Author:Charles Simmons
“I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.” KindMadeHateSongUnderstandingSoundI HateLandscapeVisualsShrinksEclipseSquash Author:Ariel Pink
“Whenever actors tout off about doing their own stunts, it's always ... they're so protective of you that I always know these stunt guys are so good [and] they're never going to put you in danger. But it's fun to do something kind of exciting, even something as simple as driving 70 through a tunnel with five motorcycles ... it sounds simple, but it's actually really nerve-wracking.” KnowsKindGuyActorsFunSoundSimpleFiveDangerExcitingDrivingNervesProtectiveTunnelsMotorcycle Author:Ethan Hawke
“My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.” HeartKindIdeasWholeSoundMy HeartMusic IsSingingProductionsRidiculousBlogsDeclaringDenominationsLaid Back Author:Mac DeMarco
“Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'” ThinkingWayWritingKindRealWantedSongSoundRecordsHeardLike YouSensualRelateLush Author:Emmy Rossum
“It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.” MenKindDoeArtSoundSimpleDegreesUniqueJokesArt IsIntelligentProofDivisionPrimitiveMonkeysBrutesSignaturesNature Of ManSimple TruthsTruismPrimitive Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.” WayWantMindKindReasonNightValuesEasySoundHeardUnderstoodWoodsGravesGhostGrievingEvery NightHalloweenMoorsRest Easy Author:Arthur Conan Doyle
“The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.” IfsWayGivingFirstsKindMightSoundNaturalGentleSuggestionsPoliteLike SomethingWoody Author:Owen Wilson
“I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMadeWantedSongSoundSimpleRecordsTypeSingingOppositesGuitarThroatStrumming Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting...You really don't think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it.” ThinkingKindWholeSoundFlowWaveSpeedFlightNosesOutcomesShockAviationOver ItCombatAirplaneDroppingHorizontal Author:Chuck Yeager
“I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.” FeelsKindDoneCharacterFeelingsSoundInterestChallengesSimpleScriptsPassionateExcitedPrimariesCombinationFilmmakerGutsMultipleLike SomethingIntriguedVariablesNew ExperiencesInstillNew ChallengesGut Feelings Author:Elijah Wood
“All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.” ThinkingWorldWantNeedsKindPersonsHelpingStoriesStuffSoundActingCrazyRapHelp MeGood TimesRapperGangsters Author:Nicki Minaj
“I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters. You know, it's the best job I've ever had, on its worst day it's better than anything else, but it's a huge amount of responsibility, and there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else's drawing sounds like going back to heaven.” KnowsKindWantedJobsNextHeavenFeltSoundResponsibilityWorstBuildingHugeAmountDrawingBest JobWorst DayBuilding SomethingMythbusters Author:Adam Savage
“There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?” ThinkingKindSoundTalkingAudienceImagineEmotional Author:Pete Docter
“Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.” KnowsFeelsWritingBelieveWellsKindLongFeelingsCertainI BelieveSoundCommunityCenturyEmotionalMaterialsStonesGuidesChainsAdviseLambsBucketsNewbornMaterial ThingsDampFleeceSmall Communities Author:Geraldine Brooks