Top 465 Sounds Quotes

We have collected the best Sounds Quotes by famous authors including Julian Baggini, Les Claypool, Adam Davidson, Xun Kuang, Susannah McCorkle and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.

Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

Julian Baggini

I’ve always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I’d still be drawing the same pictures… should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

Les Claypool

Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

Adam Davidson

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

Xun Kuang

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don’t even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.

Susannah McCorkle

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone’s uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.

Hilary Duff

All my close friends are non-conformist. To say ‘misfits’ sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside – it gives you an interesting perspective on things – and I think that’s something Robyn and I share.

Johan Renck

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

John Betjeman

I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who’s having a good time. You sure as hell don’t want to be with somebody who’s having a bad day.

Wolfman Jack

I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I’m naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds weird. But pretty much anytime I play a note, I’m uncomfortable in a general sense.

Christian Scott

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, ’cause everything sounds good. The piano’s there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something… And everything sounds good when it’s in the cans; it sounds killer.

Zakk Wylde

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Jean-Michel Jarre

My best feature would have to be my hair. That sounds so cliche – but my hair is like a separate entity.

Jake T. Austin

If we’re going to forecast the business cycle, surely it is a good idea to know the business cycle. Sounds reasonable, but it’s not that easy.

Edgar Fiedler

It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

Campbell Newman

By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

Oh my God, if you’re talking terrible theme songs, you have to mention Matt Hardy. I can’t understand what they’re even saying. There’s a point in Matt Hardy’s song where it sounds like they say ‘I want to meet the cheese.’ I’m always like, ‘Meet the cheese?’ Just goofy stuff.

Mark Henry

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside – the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

Cliff Martinez

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I’ve truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you’re on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.

Jane Lynch

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those ‘difficult’ letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.

Jeff Dunham

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It’s just a name. But it’s regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

Freddie Mercury

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Bob Dylan

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn’t really. I didn’t use the beach very much at all.

Miranda Richardson

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it’s got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

Dave Gibbons

I don’t know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Chris Evans

I don’t see anyone for the first hour and a half that I’m awake. I don’t like to talk, and I don’t like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.

Robert Wilson

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

Jackie Kennedy

When I was at ‘Newsweek’ magazine – which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school – but I started at ‘Newsweek’ magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and ‘Newsweek’ did.

Ellen Goodman

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

Marlee Matlin

There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Aimee Mann

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is ‘luck’ or ‘zeitgeist’ – in short, things that are not in our hands.

Elif Safak

Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There’s a play-along element. All these shows can be supported.

Mark Burnett

One of the greatest sounds of them all – and to me it is a sound – is utter, complete silence.

Andre Kostelanetz

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

Giovanni Ribisi

I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning – and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn’t brush my hair.

Stacey Farber

Everything sounds better when Billie sings it, so the only ones I’ll keep for myself are ones that really feel just super personal to me in their content, like this is my life story and maybe not anybody else’s.

Finneas

If someone says ‘grunge’ or ‘punk,’ you know what the sound is, but if you say ‘No Wave,’ it’s kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it… here’s this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

Lydia Lunch

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, – the colours, sounds, and so forth – nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

Ernst Mach

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target – and future.

Ryan Kwanten

We’re not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We’re pretty much making it up as we go as far as the sounds we’re creating. Oftentimes, the song will be inspired by just a certain kind of block of sound that somebody creates.

Lee Ranaldo

Instead of receding, the past actually becomes more important. That’s what will happen to you. It sounds unlikely, but the past actually changes complexion as you get older.

Mark Knopfler

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Roman Jakobson

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

Vince Cable

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

J. P. Morgan

I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, ‘She sounds like she’s grown.’

Jennifer Hudson

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Luc Ferrari

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Xenophon

One thing I would say is that I think in any environment that you work in, there’s always going to be one or two people who you don’t like. But there just wasn’t that on ‘Games Of Thrones’. I know it sounds cheesy and cliched, but it was like a big family.

Alfie Allen

The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.

Ken Hill

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

Jane Pauley

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they’re meant to come.

Martha Plimpton

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I’m interested in everything. I don’t see why Borges can’t work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can’t be mixed with Balzac. It’s just storytelling; it’s different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I’m doing and who I’m hanging out with and the kind of sounds I’m imagining. I always loved the idea of it evolving in the same way that life changes.

David Longstreth

I’ve run 350 days a year for 20-plus years, and never once have I listened to music. It’s a time for me to think, listen to natural sounds, be outside.

Jesse Itzler

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don’t think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Felix Dennis

I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

Maya Beiser

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

Tori Amos

I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we’re given so much, we need to do something for other people. I think that’s really important.

Stefanie Scott

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

R. L. Stine

I’m not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

Justin Halpern

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

Neil Innes

We made happy sounds because we were upset… just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

Ian Williams

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

Alice Cooper

If somebody from the past doesn’t rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven’t got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act – and that starts the plot in motion.

Geraldine Brooks

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

Mariah Carey

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Lewis Carroll

I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

Sylvester Stallone

You’d be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n’ roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you’re playing drums, they all hear.

Miles Davis

It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can’t tell you how many people have had this syndrome… the ‘Old Hag Syndrome.’ Apparently, there’s this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her – she’ll pop up. She’s out there.

George Noory

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

Steven Pinker

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Neville Marriner

Actually, with ‘Truth of Touch’ I wasn’t even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I’m not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.

Yanni

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Elvis Costello

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

Dewitt Bodeen

The phrase ‘fake news’ sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Daniel Levitin

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

Alva Noto

It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you’ll never stop loving them.

Sam Smith

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

Guy Clark

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

Moira Kelly

In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

Ben Folds

I’m totally normal. I love watching movies and hanging out with my friends at my house. I still go to the mall; I love to text and go on my computer. I’m totally normal – sounds kind of boring, right?

Keke Palmer

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There’s virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

James Blake

But I’ve never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

Gavin DeGraw

My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.

Jeannie Mai

Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were ‘evaluated’. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.

Liz Murray

I’m better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

Andy Summers

When Ke$ha tries to rap like L’Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she’s the star. Ke$ha’s greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!

Rob Sheffield

It sounds good to say, ‘We’re going to do this,’ on C-SPAN, but try to do that in real life, and it’s not going to work.

William M. Daley

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn’t sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

Wayne Coyne

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it’s moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks’ efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

Gil Scott-Heron

I noticed that on the Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ record they could get away with racy lyrics like that because of how they looked and the melodic way they sang the suggestive stuff. They slid it by the censors.

Eric Carmen

I’ve had a couple of odd experiences – unexplainable anxiety that came my way through a belief in something… I mean, it sounds cryptic, but… anything for me that turns myself against myself, I stay away from.

Lin Shaye

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, ‘Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House’ and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, ‘Oh, I think I’m going to like this.’ That’s how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

Kristin Chenoweth

I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.

Nadia Comaneci

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat – and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

Nathan Myhrvold

You make the movie through the cinematography – it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

Nicolas Roeg

To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding, alternative therapies, and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty, and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.

Patti Davis

It’s like, if you can’t focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don’t go to the movies! You’ve got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!

Ginnifer Goodwin

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‘Well, yeah,’ but you start to think, ‘Why not, though?’ What makes one more valuable than another?

David Byrne

The book that meant most to me was ‘The Wind in the Willows.’ It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of England.

Justin Cartwright

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

Ellen DeGeneres

No, it’s a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it’s right.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for – sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

Andre Kostelanetz

As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

Patrick Dempsey

Let’s get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray’s dazzling new novel, ‘Skippy Dies,’… Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it’s nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book.

Jess Walter

After you’ve written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

Erle Stanley Gardner

The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it affects me in a not so healthy way.

Thomas Gibson

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she’s preaching. I’m not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Betty White

I don’t really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don’t think of them as a memoir. They’re essays; they’re not an autobiography.

Sloane Crosley

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

Utada Hikaru

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like ‘School of Rock’, right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Will Poulter

I always like earthy, authentic sounds.

Nneka

There’s always haters, no matter what you’re doing – whether they’re complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it’s too different.

Avicii

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

Brian Greene

I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don’t have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.

Joe Walsh

I’m a person who likes to hang out. I would never go on a blind date. That sounds like the most uncomfortable thing on the planet earth. It’s like, ‘Hi. Nice to meet you. So, what kind of music do you like?’ Date ended.

Kirsten Dunst

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn’t really as colourful that.

Peter Capaldi

I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.

Om Malik

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn’t be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

Luc Ferrari

There’s too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

Lady Gregory

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

Miroslav Vitous

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Roman Jakobson

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the ’70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’90s. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?

Neil Young

The thing that’s tricky is sometimes the best voices – just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing – it doesn’t necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

Kara DioGuardi

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

Jill Abramson

It sounds really over the top to say you’re responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

Michael Arad

It’s not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn’t evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.

Greg Graffin

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Duane G. Carey

Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I’d left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice – ‘Hey, man, I’m Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?’ The guard waved me through.

Nancy Cartwright

People say that the Beavis voice doesn’t sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

Mike Judge

As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it’s not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

V. E. Schwab

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

Josh Trank

I know this sounds weird, but I honestly believe music comes from the universe. Inspiration comes from the universe, and you drag it into your mind.

Labrinth

I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6’2 model bodies and sometimes they’re short and brunette. All shapes and sizes – it’s really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it’s so freaking true!

Dylan O’Brien

I’m usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and that’s a whole other thing. I’m going for what it sounds like right away, so it may not even look good on the page.

Tom Waits

I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock ‘n’ roll, eh?

Rachel Stevens

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

Bill O’Reilly

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Georges Jacques Danton

I love the sea’s sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

John Dyer

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Robert Morris

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Kin Hubbard

I like to jot down ideas on the back of envelopes and to recognise the potential value in small things. I also like the freedom to think without feeling compelled to write too early. Stories are often better if we can hold back and get to know the characters and the sounds of language.

Nick Earls

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

John Burroughs

The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous – to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.

George M. Church

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

Levon Helm

Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.

Hayley Atwell

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

Usain Bolt

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

Mike Myers

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like ‘oi oi.’ I thought grownups had a separate language. I’ve now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.

Temple Grandin

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Arthur Godfrey

I was always drawn to darker sounds, things with an edge and a little bit of grit, things that have a lot of emotion and a lot of drive.

Aubrie Sellers

Our first record didn’t come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.

Jeff Ament

God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it.

Kip Winger

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon… it sounds romantic, but it’s true – the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine – a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

Antoine Predock

It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Mary Archer

That’s why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there’s no in-between. So it’s kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

Alan Vega

I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I’m trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.

Aloe Blacc

Always be different; don’t follow the rules. Don’t do what anyone tells you. Don’t use the same sounds as people; don’t use the same drums as people.

Benny Blanco

I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.

Graham Nash

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

Adam Lambert

I haven’t really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I’m too busy and – not in a bad way – don’t want to waste my time.

Shawn Mendes

Free love sounds great.

Laura Prepon

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

Kathleen Hanna

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

Artie Lange

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Robin S. Sharma

This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets – take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you’re making a fried egg and just before it’s done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

Patton Oswalt

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

Alyssa Milano

It’s hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I’m in the studio and I write it. and that’s it.

Nuno Bettencourt

Tough love is exactly what it sounds like.

Anne Burrell

I can make the best fart noises. I can make, like, 10 different sounds at different levels.

Isabela Moner

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

Ravi Shankar

I literally have meetings at eight o’clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o’clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don’t even have time to go shopping.

Stella McCartney

I have a singer, she’s called Lara Caprotti. And then I have Stefano Serafini playing trumpet. The trumpet sounds amazing live in a club.

Christian Vieri

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says ‘less’ when they should have said ‘fewer.’ But my ‘poor’ sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my ‘grass’ rhymes with mass, not farce. What’s wrong with that?

Steph McGovern

Loving Jesus is what’s most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it’s the truth.

Stephen Baldwin

A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.

Mohnish Pabrai

I didn’t know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

Emanuel Celler

Using double coil pickups kills a lot of the guitar tone – you lose the acoustic mechanics. With my single-coils driven through the Marshalls and overdrive, it sounds massive.

Yngwie Malmsteen

I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn’t matter to me where it comes from – there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.

Stephen Marley

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it’s hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

Hooman Majd

I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.

Fetty Wap

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

Ariel Rechtshaid

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

David Talbot

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I’ve learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the ‘grammelot.’

Dario Fo

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

Chick Corea

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.

Judi Dench

I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.

Ron White

I write music that sounds complex but isn’t. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

Eric Whitacre

I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.

Lynn Johnston

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Ice T

I know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.

Mark Ronson

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

Pierre Schaeffer

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

Aurora

I’ve seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn’t worked out that way.

Joe Perry

It’s a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren’t on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.

Jo Brand

At the time, when you’re being dissected and judged it’s pretty brutal, but in hindsight it’s great and – it sounds cliched – you do come out the other side better and stronger.

Kate Bosworth

As corny as it sounds, I’m often pinching myself going, ‘What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I’ve gotten to work with.’

Chris Messina

I’ve been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds – and I don’t mean it to sound – every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

Ryan Kwanten

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

Colin Greenwood

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that’s true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there’s something about the guitar – the range of possibilities is much broader.

The Edge

He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.

Brittany Snow

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don’t want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

Luke Bryan

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ by Brecht.

Justin Kirk

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

Mario Batali

I’ve been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he’s playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

Ornette Coleman

It sounds really arrogant, but my music’s my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else’s.

Richard D. James

I don’t know what silence sounds like anymore.

will.i.am

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

Carter G. Woodson

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Richard Wagner

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

Anatoly Karpov

I like ‘Goodbye My Lover’ because it’s a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady’s bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It’s so close to what I can imagine.

James Blunt

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I’ve come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it’s not one particular set of sounds.

Carlisle Floyd

I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.

Trent Reznor

It sounds so cheesy, but there’s something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it’s really hard to lie.

Kristen Wiig

One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.

Chris Parnell

I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.

Ryan Sheckler

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that’s when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn’t sound insincere.

Nate Ruess

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

Dennis Prager

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

Rudolf Steiner

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

Nicolas Malebranche

As hackneyed and cliche as it sounds, follow your heart. We are all given intuition and instincts, and sometimes it is hard to follow those instincts with the fears and pressures that surround us – but you have to do it.

Michael Feinstein

I’m letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there’s too many words in it.

K. Flay

It sounds super cliche, but staying true to yourself and what you are works.

Shane Dawson

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Stanley Kubrick

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments – guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

Imogen Heap

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

Conor Oberst

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

Bob Kane

I think the ‘Lethal Weapon’ movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn’t look hard, it’s difficult to create ‘effortless’ on screen.

Mel Gibson

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it’s dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

Jo Brand

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

Alain de Botton

I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that’s not the conventional definition of hiding.

Hugh Laurie

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Claude Debussy

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to – at least once in his or her career – play the person who saves the entire world.

Lukas Haas

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

Joanna Newsom

To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I’m a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down – listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.

Austin Mahone

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

Haley Reinhart

My grandfather always told me, ‘You know you’re American first, but you’re a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.’ It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.

Melina Kanakaredes

Over the years I’ve learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn’t want the name. ‘Pele’ sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Pele

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

Tommy Lee

In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, ‘Damn, that’s a pop song!’ I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

M.I.A.

Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it’s true, and look at the results.

Michael Mann

I’d like to find someone to procreate with – as sexy as that sounds. If you’re out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won’t bite. Well, maybe a little, if you’re lucky.

Chloe Sevigny

Going out and volunteering sounds simple, but many people don’t volunteer because they don’t know where to start.

Mark Foster

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here’s one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds – particularly if it sounds bad – recognize the pattern of defamation.

Marvin Olasky

‘Nice’ means nothing. Is it someone who doesn’t swear and shout? I swear and shout. ‘Nice’ sounds ineffectual.

Michael Palin

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I’m feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it’s very, very true.

Rachel Roy

I didn’t even know what a beauty editor was. It sounds like a fictional job if you think about it. You get to test lipstick and perfume and nail polish legitimately and call it work.

Zoe Foster Blake

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It’s harder than it sounds.

Errol Morris

You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

Moby

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

Ian MacKaye

There’s no better sight than when I look out from the speaker’s rostrum and see a group of Republicans and Democrats who sit in a couple of rows together, laughing together. It is just – it sounds a little silly – but it’s just an amazing, great sight.

Sara Gideon

The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it’s happening.

Kato Kaelin

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you’re being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Colin Wilson

As soon as it sounds fine, I’m on to the next thing, man.

Damon Albarn

I know it sounds crazy, but you’ve got to let what you’re going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

Tom Peters

At our production company, the trademark dish – and this sounds particularly revolting – is curried pickled herring.

Joshua Oppenheimer

I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn’t have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

Todd Phillips

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

I guess I could say I’m an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I’m putting down being a movie star, which, let’s face it, is what I’ve become to many people. For myself, I’m a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

Dennis Quaid

I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.

Duane G. Carey

A lot of other bass players have told me I’m the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he’s playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.

Glenn Hughes

You say ‘African music’ and you think ‘tribal drumming.’ But there’s a lot of African music that’s like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.

Damian Marley

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there’s a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

Jane Siberry

It’s fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Jim Broadbent

I hate a word like ‘pets’: it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Elizabeth Jennings

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that’s the type of music I grew up listening to.

Coco Lee

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it’s just going to be that much funnier. And there’s no better example of that than ‘Monty Python.’

Seth MacFarlane

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.

Mary Lou Retton

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they’re my terms, and they’re not.

Barbara Kruger

I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.

Aubrey Plaza

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Roman Jakobson

The Beatles production is often so ‘perfect’ that it sounds computerized. ‘Sgt. Pepper’ really does sound like it took four months to make.

Jon Landau

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Wayne Dyer

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

Graham Norton

I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn’t make a big difference, and it never has. So, I’ve saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it’s part of our culture, and it’s part of a social activity more than anything else.

Aaron Patzer

I don’t have kids, but in many ways I feel I’ve had them already. I don’t want to say I raised my brothers – that sounds too strong – but actually I do feel like that a bit.

Meg Cabot

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

Roman Jakobson

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that’s really what I need.

Heather Graham

All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Oscar Hammerstein II

As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.

Albert Murray

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don’t want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

Andrew Scott

Because I am married to a surgeon, I do Botox and I do some fillers. But I truly believe that the best beauty secret is happiness. I know that sounds sappy, but I’m just telling you it comes from the inside and spreads out. The happier and more satisfied you are living your life, the better you will look.

Heather Dubrow

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

Rian Johnson

I tend to sleep in the nude… I’m a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word ‘leaning’ or it sounds like I’m boasting.

Padma Lakshmi

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I’m going to get them out of my way.

Fiona Apple

What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

David Horowitz

In New Orleans, where I’m from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

Anthony Mackie

Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.

Henry Rollins

I don’t really want to be doing high budget, where they’ve got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

Rider Strong

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.

Adam Johnson

There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but I can see them coming a mile off. I just go with the adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

Wilbur Smith

There’s very little you’re not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things – sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

Olivia Thirlby

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

John Oliver

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music – combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

Damien Chazelle

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

Chanel Iman

I’d love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn’t want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

Kaley Cuoco

We were totally confident that we would make it internationally. We had no money or instruments. We used cake tins or bottles with water in them – anything to make sounds.

Morten Harket

‘Recreative’ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‘recreational’ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‘recreational’ reading. I like to say that I read ‘recreatively.’ I do a lot of ‘recreative’ reading.

Kevin Gates

‘Lemonade’ is made out of bubbling, fizzing, popping, and ‘Hard’ is made from metal and latex – they are sort of sculptures in this way. I synthesize all sounds except for vocals using raw waveforms and different synthesis methods as opposed to using samples.

Sophie

If I’m wearing the wrong clothes I can’t think. It sounds so weird but it just has to be the right fabrics and like the right feeling on my body.

Zawe Ashton

I love to bake. I like to bake with wheat and try not to eat sugar, so I use applesauce instead, which probably sounds really gross.

Brenda Song

It’s funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I’m not in the first episode, but he’s at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

Stockard Channing

I know it sounds Pollyannish and ‘Kumbaya’-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what’s going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I’m a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

Dennis C. Blair

I think one of the great things that Jason does, that ‘Ted Lasso’ does: the way that Jason leads is by delegating. He’s really good at going, ‘Here’s what I think, but what do you think? Great. Awesome. Let’s work that in, that sounds great.’ It’s a real collaborative process with him.

Phil Dunster

My mom was a practicing Hindu, and my dad was a Catholic who practiced yoga meditation and karma yoga. My earliest memories are of the bright colors, beautiful sounds, and fragrant aromas of both Christian and Hindu celebrations.

Tulsi Gabbard

To me, a ‘brand’ sounds evil.

Steven Moffat

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

Tom Hiddleston

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

John Philip Sousa

‘Paper Planes’ was an accident. It wasn’t a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

M.I.A.

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That’s what I’m fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

Jack Kevorkian

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Jim Carrey

They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There’s nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won’t be good.

Casey Affleck

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn’t been any such thing.

Tom T. Hall

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It’s not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.

Frank Sinatra

Just because something has tubes doesn’t mean it’s the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.

Dweezil Zappa

When I started writing, I said, ‘I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know if it sounds good.’ Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn’t for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.

Khalid

I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you’re picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there’s enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.

Trent Reznor

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

Mike May

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

Nancy Friday

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

Miranda Lambert

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I’ve chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

Tony Kaye

I don’t really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don’t know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It’s all about language, it’s all about how you apply it to the page.

Colum McCann

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

Timbaland

I try to make films, not movies. I’ve never liked the expression ‘movie’, but it sounds elitist to say that.

Ridley Scott

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Yoko Ono

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn’t go as far as to say ‘novelist’ because that sounds like a Victorian person.

Dawn French

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

Little Simz

Don’t let people treat you like you’re stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Sinbad

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

Jessica Simpson

I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited.

Rick Wakeman

We’ve been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play ‘My Girl’ with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

Otis Williams

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you’ve done and more and more refine an existing performance.

Jerry Harrison

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

Chuck Mangione

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

Jim Coleman

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

Roman Jakobson

It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges – I relish them – I think it’s what make me tick, to a certain extent.

Raymond Kelly

I wouldn’t say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.

Dionne Bromfield

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let’s go!

Jeremy Northam

Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole ‘Baroque Cycle’ and ‘Cryptonomicon.’

Daniel Suarez

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

Elisabeth Shue

The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively – I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook – it sounds trivial, but people matter.

Reid Hoffman

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Taylor Swift

A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

Andrew Bird

The music industry’s actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn’t it?

Ronnie James Dio

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists.

Leonard Mlodinow

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it’s the right thing to do out there.

Rafael Nadal

I’m trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

Lucinda Williams

So I don’t really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don’t really know anything about it. Because, you know, I’m not around girls like that. The friends I have in the business, I’m always really happy for them. I think we’re always happy for each other. That sounds crap, but it’s true.

Emily Blunt

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

John C. McGinley

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

Miroslav Vitous

I do think – as self-serving as it sounds – that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.

Howard Schultz

I know who my dad is, I’ve met him a few times, but I don’t even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don’t even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn’t bother me because I don’t know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

Sally Pearson

I’d always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I’m really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

Regina Spektor

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn’t always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

Josie Loren

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Martha Beck

All of those 10cc ‘Not in Love’-type synthetic choir sounds on ‘Replica’ are all from the Omnisphere. We used a lot of that.

Oneohtrix Point Never

Most performers don’t admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

Tom Glazer

All rock musicians are deaf… Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

Marc Bolan

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

David Whyte

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.

Jane Green

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

Metro Boomin

I’d rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

Mo Rocca

Cardiac depression is very powerful; it’s very black; it’s very dark. What I’ve learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing – it was difficult at first – to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.

Robby Benson

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I’m not perfect. I’m a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don’t do well.

Nick Jonas

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Aurora

The problem is, I don’t think I’ve got too much to offer at the minute. I’m busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it’s like, you’ve got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.

Robbie Williams

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let’s face it.

Mary Karr

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

Daniel Barenboim

It always sounds so cheesy when I say it, but whatever it is you want to do, just go for it. I don’t care what it is: find a reputable school, or if you need to go to college or get the right training, just go do it and take little steps.

Bayley

I want to make sound effects for biomes. If you’re walking along a river you hear the water, then in the forest you hear birds, but as night comes in, it becomes kind of weird, you can walk through a desert, a swamp, and the sounds merge and change with you.

C418

It’s like that Simpsons joke – they’re filming a cow in a movie and they go, ‘OK, we’ll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow’, and it’s like, ‘Why don’t you just use a cow?’. For some reason that is novel – like, ‘Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar’.

Ian Williams

Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n’ roll, but I like it. It’s fun, and it’s better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

Ellie Goulding

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Hugh Jackman

You can’t defend the indefensible – anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

Diane Abbott

Ummm… well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they’re doing, which sounds obvious, but it’s really not.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I’m aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music – or lack thereof – in a particular accent.

Brendan Gleeson

In terms of the production, the style I use is what I see as the ‘Lisa Stansfield sound’ and I would hope that when anyone puts on one of my songs they don’t even have to listen to my voice to know this is a Lisa Stansfield song, because of the way it sounds.

Lisa Stansfield

You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.

Mike Lowry

I actually had a bunch of songs that I worked on with Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed, but they were too heavy for me because my voice sounds good when I sing clean. It sounds good dirty too, but when I hear my voice sing really clean, that’s a special sound.

Sebastian Bach

It’s not hard to get your way when it’s your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they’re not around. I don’t really like the sound of that, ’cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I’m just very black and white when it comes to my business. There’s really no gray area.

Nicki Minaj

I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I’m happy, I make great music. When I’m unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.

Narada Michael Walden

If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I’ll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I’ll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

Pat Mastelotto

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you’ve been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

Salma Hayek

I know it sounds silly, but no one really anticipates just how mentally and emotionally taxing and unbelievably physically grueling it is to be the Bachelor.

Chris Harrison

I’m just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic – just loads of different stuff on it. That’s what I am hoping.

Charlotte Church

One day I’ll wake up and I’ll have 10 or 12 songs and think, ‘Oh that sounds like it could be a record.’

Bryan Adams

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Gordon Bethune

Music deals with time and timing. It’s so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it’s critical, so critical. And if it’s not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

David Lynch

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it’s like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

Ike Turner

Advances don’t fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn’t really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I’m certainly not going to say no. But it hasn’t come my way as yet, and I’m not heartbroken.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Roman Jakobson

Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power… but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding… The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

David Whyte

Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model’s career, as ironic as that sounds. It’s how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.

Erin O’Connor

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don’t, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened… and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

Genevieve Gorder

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don’t mind being called Americana, I don’t mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

Neko Case

That’s one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can’t hear what’s there properly.

Jimmy Page

I grew up surrounded by all types of cultures – French, Indian, Arabic – a melting pot of cultures, sounds, foods, people, and religions. It opened my eyes early, and I’m grateful for that. It’s not about success in one area; it’s about exploring the world musically and spending time in those places whenever you can.

DJ Snake

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

Nick Cave

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

Jim Gerlach

Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn’t go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won’t have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn’t take much for spending to spiral out of control.

Ryan Holmes

As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we’re most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.

Richard Dooling

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: ‘Will I lose my hair?’ It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.

Amy Robach

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Drake

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

George Carey

I’ve spent a lot of time in India. When I was a young cinematographer, I was completely enthralled by the color, the movement, the sounds. But photographically, it was very hard to capture it; photographs rarely did it justice.

Greig Fraser

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable… There is a sound you hear in your head, it’s your nerves, or your blood running.

Lou Reed

It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy – I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.

Christina Hendricks

You know how bad my voice sounds – well it feels just as bad.

George Herman

I’ve had five weddings but if I’m really honest and if I count significant de factos… I’ve had nine husbands… which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I’m 65 it’s not so bad.

Jacki Weaver

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I’ve got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it’s possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

John Oliver

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It’s not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

Dhani Harrison

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

Tobe Hooper

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Chuck Berry

The world doesn’t revolve around me anymore. Now it’s all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it’s the truth.

Michael Easton

I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-’70s. I don’t know why, exactly, I’m drawn to those sounds.

M. Ward

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

Ice T

I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies.

Ty Simpkins

I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that – it still seems freaky.

Rob Zombie

I like the word ‘autopilot’ more than I like the word ‘self-driving.’ ‘Self-driving’ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‘Autopilot’ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

Elon Musk

I don’t think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I’ve chosen to work with.

Katy B

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I have an amp that doesn’t have a master volume. It sounds awesome, but we just can’t get an appropriate decibel level out of it.

Joe Trohman

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Aurora

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I’ve been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

Rachel Bilson

I never consciously said, ‘I want to be an actor.’ It sounds stupid, but it’s kind of like being a painter or something. You don’t say, ‘From today on I’m going to be a painter.’ It’s not something conscious – you’ve just been painting pictures all your life.

Franka Potente

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don’t fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

Cecily von Ziegesar

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Nipsey Hussle

As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.

Zoe Sugg

I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won’t tell you how much I got them for – let’s just say it was a lot.

Mel B

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we’ll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That’s harder than it sounds.

Bill Kurtis

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Alfred Hitchcock

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn’t take that kind of power and success.

Michael Korda

Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.

Walter Dean Myers

I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Betty White

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

Mike Lowry

What people think of me doesn’t affect me. As bizarre as it sounds, I don’t have a Google alert on my phone; I don’t read newspapers, and I don’t watch television. If something important happens, I will get to know about it.

Sushant Singh Rajput

An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

Roberta Williams

I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don’t wanna make a song about how people think I’m this when I’m really that. I don’t wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

Kreayshawn

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they’ve got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I’m supposed to be more revealing than I’ve been, and to me it just sounds like something I don’t want to do.

David Duchovny

I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.

Ruth Buzzi

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

Jim Coleman

When you’re looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, ‘Man, maybe that could be our band name.’

Dave Haywood

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.

John Hull

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

Saul Williams

It’s just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don’t know how ‘soul’ it is.

Apolo Ohno

It’s valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it’s invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

Joanna Newsom

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.

B. B. King

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

Justin Timberlake

I’ve been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I’m trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

Emmy Rossum

A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.

Chino Moreno

A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you’re listening to it outside, but also like you’re surrounded by it, and I think that’s quite similar.

Sean Booth

I don’t understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

Jeff Beck

I think I always wanted to be an actor – sounds a bit boring, doesn’t it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be a vet because one of the teachers asked me and saying you want to be an actor sounds a little bit silly. And I do still feel a bit silly saying it. You feel a bit fraudulent.

Sophie Thompson

In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don’t want to start sinking slowly… I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.

Conor Oberst

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

Rachel Stevens

I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, ‘It sounds like he’s played the wrong note there.’ I remember the look of horror on my dad’s face, and thinking, ‘Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.’

Laura Mvula

When you’re standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

Susan Estrich

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