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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.

Quotes by Ry Cooder

That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it's magic!

Quotes by Ry Cooder

That's really the Holy Grail of conducting: how to change the sound of an orchestra just with our hands alone.

Quotes by Ruth Reinhardt

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Quotes by Ruben Blades

The first musical sound I ever heard was from a banjo. My father played, and I was an infant in a crib, and something just stayed with me from those early days.

Quotes by Roy Clark

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Quotes by Roy H. Williams

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

Quotes by Roselyn Sanchez

My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.

Quotes by Roscoe Mitchell

In 2012 the best venue I played was Union Chapel in London. It's a beautiful room, the sound is exceptional, and they treated us very well.

Quotes by Ron Pope

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

Quotes by Ron Carter

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Quotes by Ron Chernow

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Quotes by Roman Jakobson

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

Quotes by Roman Jakobson

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.

Quotes by Roman Jakobson

We grew up understanding how the analog sound is a driving force for music.

Quotes by Rohan Marley

The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to the fine nerve endings in the inner ear, though it is worse in the left, which is the side of my snare drum and the monitor.

Quotes by Roger Taylor

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.

Quotes by Roger McGuinn

I could do James Taylor, Neil Young, and sound just like them.

Quotes by Robin Zander

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

Quotes by Robert James Graves

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

Quotes by Rob Zombie

I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people's shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years.

Quotes by Rob Riggle

I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs.

Quotes by Riff Raff

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

Quotes by Rihanna

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

Quotes by Richard Masur

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

Quotes by Richard Jenkins

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Quotes by Richard D. James

I really got into Gaelic music and the whole sound of it, and I got to go to Scotland.

Quotes by Rhiannon Giddens

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

Quotes by Renee Fleming

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

Quotes by Reese Witherspoon

I've tried in the past to blog about ghostwriting and have failed. I have a lot of opinions on the whole issue, and I'm constantly censoring myself to make sure I don't just sound like a bitter writer.

Quotes by Rebecca Serle

You've got to make yourself sound cooler than you are to your brothers.

Quotes by Raymond Ochoa

I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.

Quotes by Raymond Bonner

At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.

Quotes by Ramin Djawadi

Padam Kumar is a technically sound director, very contemporary.

Quotes by Rahul Dev

The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

Quotes by Raghuram Rajan

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

Quotes by Rachel Maddow

My life is not a sound bite.

Quotes by Rachel Dolezal

I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.

Quotes by Rachel Boston

I might sound audacious, but the Mahatma has been a great inspiration. He had the conviction to live with his beliefs in the face of total disbelief.

Quotes by R. Madhavan

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.

Quotes by Preet Bharara

I'm trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that's really fresh.

Quotes by Post Malone

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Quotes by Plautus

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

Quotes by Pierre Schaeffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Quotes by Pierre Schaeffer

The Replacements don't sound like The Replacements half the time!

Quotes by Phoebe Bridgers

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

Quotes by Phil Spector

I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.

Quotes by Phil Klay

I like the experience being in the audience and being overwhelmed by sound, like thick, oppressive loud sound and distortion.

Quotes by Phil Elverum

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.

Quotes by Phil Anselmo

Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.

Quotes by Peter Tosh

Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel.

Quotes by Peter Roskam

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

Quotes by Peter Marino

If there's ever a live record that deserved to be mixed in surround sound, it's 'Frampton Comes Alive.'

Quotes by Peter Frampton

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

Quotes by Peter Asher

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

Quotes by Paul Weller

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

Quotes by Paul Twitchell

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Quotes by Paul Valery

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

Quotes by Paul Simon

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

Quotes by Paul Taylor

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

Quotes by Paul Oakenfold

In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.

Quotes by Paul Merton

Rock shows are loud, so I try to use a sound that is warm on the high frequencies.

Quotes by Paul Gilbert

Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

Quotes by Paul Engle

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

Quotes by Patti LuPone

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

Quotes by Patricia Heaton

I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

Quotes by Pat Summitt

I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

Quotes by Pat Metheny

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

Quotes by Pat Metheny

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

Quotes by Pat Metheny

The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.

Quotes by Parker Posey

When I write, I want something to sound good itself.

Quotes by Padgett Powell

The existence of billionaires should sound an alarm: they are the most extreme manifestation of wealth generated by the efforts of millions of people being funnelled into the pockets of a tiny few.

Quotes by Owen Jones

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

Quotes by Oscar Peterson

It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.

Quotes by Oneohtrix Point Never

To be honest, I don't really like arenas. It's not easy to make the sound good, or to perform in them.

Quotes by Oliver Sykes

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

Quotes by Norman Granz

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

Quotes by Norman Geisler

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Quotes by Noel Redding

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

Quotes by Nobuo Uematsu

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

Quotes by Nina Simone

Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.

Quotes by Nina Blackwood

I took two years out to find what sound I felt passionate about and what I liked making. After the last album, 'Peroxide', which is quite poppy and acoustic, I felt really bored.

Quotes by Nina Nesbitt

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

Quotes by Niklaus Wirth

I believe silence is the greatest sound of all.

Quotes by Nicolas Winding Refn

I really should not need to spell this out, but one of the attributes of a successful sniper is that he makes no sound at all - nor, indeed, shouts out warnings!

Quotes by Nicholas Soames

My favourite thing to do as an artist is record. It's a super therapeutic thing for me. Not to sound corny, but it literally is a stress relief for me.

Quotes by NF

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

Quotes by Neal Schon

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

Quotes by Nathan Fielder

I wanted the music to sound, like, made in Mexico. I wanted to connect to my roots.

Quotes by Natalia Lafourcade

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

Quotes by Narada Michael Walden

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

Quotes by Nancy Sinatra

When it comes to scripts, I take a critical look at them and then sound it off with Dad.

Quotes by Naga Chaitanya

I'm a singer and a songwriter. It's hard to describe what I sound like when I sing.

Quotes by Murray Head

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

Quotes by Murray Rothbard

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

Quotes by Muddy Waters

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.

Quotes by Morris Hite

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

Quotes by Montserrat Caballe

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