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I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.
Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.
Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.
I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.
In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.
I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'
My favourite smell is the smell of cut grass, and the sound of sprinklers going on.
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
Bjork's album, 'Homogenic,' it's got beats, strings, traditional Icelandic stuff. That's my benchmark for what an album should sound like, right up there with Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' and Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On.'
When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound.
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.
I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.
You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.
The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
Once Brexit is delivered, we then need to think about how we can make the Conservatives look new and sound different.
Having watched 'X Factor' over the years, they just haven't got it right. The male winners haven't been believable. They look like puppets; they sound like puppets.
Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.
This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
I try and manufacture recordings to sound spontaneous. Then, some things are spontaneous.
When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.
When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
Maybe we'd forgotten what socialists are meant to look and sound like. Well, now we've been reminded. They're meant to look and sound like Jeremy Corbyn.
Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.
Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.
I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.
With new artists, you really don't have anything to reference. You're helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally.
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.
My country stuff, it might sound like Hank Williams - that's just the way it is. But I'd rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Atkins.
The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
In my childhood, I used to go to theatres to watch independent singers' outing on screen. I used to be excited about how different they sound in a video and at a theatre.
I went to school for audio engineering, and I was around a lot of sound engineers over the summers in New York, so I'm pretty comfortable in engineering my own stuff.
I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.
It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.
This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.
You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with them. And that's the sound I grew with.
I try not to force my sound on everybody. I try to yield unto each artist and... I try to just support that sound rather than force a sound that might not fit.
For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.
If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.
Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
My top beauty tip is to drink lots of water. It might sound lame, but it works.
The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.
I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.
I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.
You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
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