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The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound

the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.

The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through a microphone, amplifiers, transmission lines, radio transmitter, receiving set, and, finally, the loud speaker apparatus itself.

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, 'I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.'

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

The construction of social housing and the attempt to support families seeking to buy their own homes are all projects from the 1960s and '70s. It all sounds old-fashioned, but it is actually completely modern.

The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.

The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.

The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie of saints and dragons must be faithfully recalled.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average.

The danger of course is always is caricature. The biggest challenge was to sound like Nelson Mandela. Everything else is easy to do, walk like him. He has a few ticks and things I noticed that I picked up. I didn't have any agenda, as it were, in playing the role other than to bring it as close to reality as I possibly could.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business.

The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.