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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Quote by Randy Bachman

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100...

Quote by Quincy Jones about bad luck, bad

What is so vastly original and new and different about The Pretenders? You know, she sounds like Sandie Shaw circa 1964, the band sounds like a million bands, so what.

Quote by Lester Bangs

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about man

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds.

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, concord

Here will we sit and let the sounds of music.

Here will we sit and let the sounds of music.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, music

Talking Heads, were a sorta collegian kinda art school, ...

Talking Heads, were a sorta collegian kinda art school, I'm trying not to make them sound so bad cause I really love em.

Quote by Lester Bangs about heads, talking, school, bad luck, art, magic, bad, love

You just said on your radio station how rude Simon is in...

You just said on your radio station how rude Simon is in public. He can be charming. He's a walking sound bite.

Quote by Paula Abdul about public

I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds...

I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about rightness

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy...

Quote by M. H. Abrams about tests, voice, ability

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest...

Quote by Erykah Badu about holidays, emotions, ability, people

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as...

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Quote by Douglas Adams about love

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a...

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Quote by Scott Adams

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

Quote by Warren Beatty about money, rightness, people

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I...

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.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about love, power, artists

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Quote by Albert Camus about world, quiet, silence

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say...

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Quote by Jane Austen

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

Quote by Bette Davis

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to...

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

Quote by Geena Davis about americans, woman

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness...

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about impossible, body, mind

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