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“I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.”

Thinking Kind Sound Style Ears Towns Pumps

Author:Michael McKean

“It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.”

Giving Writing Trying Reason Use Sound Style Perception Ordinary Sentences Objectives Reason Why Faithful Paragraph Transmit Being Faithful Synonym

Author:Martin Amis

“Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.”

Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected

“No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.”

Ifs Matter Reason Certain Song Sound Forget Style No Matter What Music And Lyrics

Author:Jello Biafra

“Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.”

May Sound Style Roots Wit Maturity Trunks Antithesis

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.”

Thinking Men Trying Littles Ideas Seems Language Sound Style He Man Direct Crowds Contrary Magazines Proportion Explicit Few Words

Author:Washington Irving

“I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.”

People Giving Wanted Sound My Own Style Taste

Author:Birdy

“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”

Should Sound Music Generations Style Ocean Ears My Time Capture Mud Annoyance

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“It is really amazing to be able to do cinematic, big feature style film music on a weekly basis and do it in LA, on a big scoring stage, on a studio lot, and do it with the right players and make it sound great.”

Bigs Able Film Sound Player Stage Style Bases Studios Features Cinematic Really Amazing Film Music

Author:Christopher Lennertz

“The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.”

Firsts Enough Culture Strong Sound Seeing Style Listening First Time Crosses Connections Independent Musical Great Men Melody Very Strong Vocal Hungarians Strong Connection Irish Music

Author:Tom Waits