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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

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about ideology, evolution, spring, use, life

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.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, music

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

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

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

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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about technology, music

I had a Nagra, one of the first portable machines. I started collecting sounds without any preconceived notions other than a desire to insert into musical discourse a sound that basically didn't belong there.

Quote by Luc Ferrari

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.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about character, idea

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been...

Quote by Mel Gibson about tolerance, haven, chance, need, day

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.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film, eyes, people

What they call jazz here is not the real stuff. Compared to the music I heard in New Orleans, it sounds like tin pans.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about music, real estate

Every revolution has its wastage sounds the wisdom of politicians.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about revolution, wisdom

The percussion section always sounds loudest where the judges are sitting. It cannot be heard from the podium

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about judges

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

Quote by Larry Page

I think in terms of a melody that sounds like something new. Nobody's told me yet that my tunes sound familiar.

Quote by Brad Paisley about music

If a melody sounds familiar, I know enough musical theory to head to another place.

Quote by Brad Paisley about music, heads

Language, through its signs, that are words and the sounds that make them are different depending on the way a certain phenomenon is perceived, on its role et on how much importance he is given.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about language, astrology