I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.
Lyla Novacek: I know it sounds crazy, but I can hear him! I swear I can hear him!
Jim Gordon: [hearing bat sounds] What is that? Batman: Back-up. Flass: What the...? [bats swarm around Arkham]
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.
I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.
There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.
Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
