“Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.” WholeCharacterFactsBodyFormSoundMovementProduceParticularElementsUniversalAccountsFunctionHarmonyRhythmAtomsVibrationsCelestialCelestial Bodies Author:Pythagoras
“When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.” FeelsKindFilmSoundBrainParticularPeriodsSittingDown AndMelodySurgerySitting DownBrain Surgery Author:Clint Eastwood
“I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.” IfsWritingHumansHeartIdeasStoriesSoundMy OwnParticularReaderMy HeartDemandFleshSettingSettingsClothingsHuman Experience Author:Katherine Paterson
“When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.” FeelsPlayMomentsFeelingsGuySongPassionSoundBehindsParticularHugeBandMountainWaveDrivingNineSurfingBehind YouLarger Than Life Author:Jason Mraz
“Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.” MenGivingMindBelieveLooksMadeHandsEarthI BelieveSoundWonderImagineParticularColorWindOughtCreaturesSeasonsLandscapeDawnRememberedImagine ThatAngleNoonDuskGlareDawn And Dusk Book:The Way to Rainy Mountain Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain
“If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.” PeopleIfsStillsMomentsFeelingsDreamLightRememberSoundQualityChildhoodEmotionalParticularEssentialsDrawsUnusualRecallsFooledStill Life Author:Maurice Sendak
“You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.” LongSongSoundSidesPerfectParticularFitTempoYour SideWaiterNoodlesPerfect Fit Book:Essays in Disguise Source: Essays in Disguise
“I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and telling them why you want to go to a particular university. That's probably what you would actually sound like. Then write your letter to the university, and put those 2 versions in front of you, and look at the difference between those 2 things.” WantWritingLooksSchoolSoundDifferencesTeacherFrontsParticularHigh SchoolAdultsLettersUniversityVersionsUnclesAuntSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:David Sedaris
“Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.” ThinkingEndsSometimesTogetherFoundNamesSoundPiecesParticularBecomingOkayTitlesWorking TogetherIntrigue Author:Brian Eno
“I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song]. One of the songs that I considered talking about was "Manhattan," because it was chronicling the end of a long relationship that was part of the reason why I moved from Los Angeles to New York, which was such a life-changing decision. I don't regret that it's not in there, but that's one that I considered diving into, and I have little piecemeal snippets of writing about that floating around” ThinkingWritingLittlesLongEndsReasonSongSoundDecisionPerfectTalkingPiecesNew YorkParticularRegretMovedLike MeReason WhyLife ChangingLos AngelesFloatingManhattanDivingDon't RegretLong RelationshipGestation Author:Sara Bareilles