“I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.” TryingHateSoundLinesI HateRepeatsCliche Author:Gary McCord
“The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.” AmericaSoundVoiceOptimisticRepeatsMonologuesMetallic Author:Vance Palmer
“Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.” MenRealityPainSoundChurchLinesInstantRepeatsColourEtcYellowTemperatureOne Line Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.” IfsNightSoundMessagesShotsRepeatsCriedOne Word Book:Out of Africa Source: Out of Africa
“A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don't want it to have that live funky sound so I'll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there's consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.” WantFeelsWellsLittlesUseHateBitsSoundLittle BitMusicianRepeatsConsistencyLove HateLoopsFunkyLove Hate Relationship Author:Solange Knowles
“lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.” WellsArtSoundNumbersKnownBearsLoversPerfectionRepeatsNonsenseEchoesWell KnownImpatientTautology Book:The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author Source: The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author
“When they played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror!” MenHumorFunnySoundRoomsHorrorChaosHorribleTeethRepeatsPigsWeeping Author:Lewis Black