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“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

“There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'”

Trying Guy Sound Machines Weather Corporate Listen To Me

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.”

Thinking Feelings Running Sound Conversation Losing Machines Sight Mood Weather Remembered Cycles Length Leisure Countryside Meditating Sight And Sound Losing Time

Book:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.”

Song Sound Music Awareness Machines Endless Repetition Touring Relentless Washing Washing Machines

Book:Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

Source: Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

“When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.”

Sound Tools Machines These Days Listening To Music

Author:Dave Grohl

“I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.”

Sound Perfect Machines Drummer

Author:Taylor Hawkins

“When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.”

Poetry Sound Poet Machines Critics Bees Sewing Bumble Bee

Author:Mason Cooley

“I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.”

Facts Problem Light Sound Voice My Own Interesting Brain Half Rich Tvs Huge Right Now Mouths Machines Hearing Shade Coming Out Up And Down Answering Machines

Author:Hugh Laurie

“Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently.”

Real Use Sound Principles Machines Software Establishment Engineering Software Engineering

Author:Friedrich L. Bauer

“[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.”

Source: THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI, THE STORY OF AVIATION, THE SWIMMING POOL, KISS ME AGAIn, STRANGER, RIVETS, ADVENTURES IN TWO WORLDS, THE SILENT WORLD, SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT

“I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.”

Ideas Shows Light Sound Objects Machines Devices Plugs Relics Activate Time Machine

Author:Anne Waldman