I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.
I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.
I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.
You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.
I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.
To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.
The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?
When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.
