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Sound Quotes

The many meanings of how something sounds.

These sound quotes range from musicians describing their own recorded voice to a conductor aiming for a particular orchestral character, alongside a sharper caution about what happens when love is tamed and made predictable. See more in Like quotes.

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Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Quotes by Agnes de Mille

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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

Quotes by Afrika Bambaataa

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I don't mean to sound cocky, but I just wear what I like and don't try to focus too much on trends.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

Good Quotes

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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

Quotes by Adriana Trigiani

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Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.

Quotes by Adrian Younge

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To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

Quotes by Adrian Younge

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I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

Quotes by Adrian Belew

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It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.

Quotes by Adebayo Akinfenwa

Like Quotes

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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

Quotes by Adam Mansbach

Together they show how 'sound' stretches from literal audio to a metaphor for authenticity. Browse Good quotes or Me quotes for related reflections on identity.