Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy.
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.
[the sounds of torpedoes detonating and sinking ships has subsided] Captain: Now it's their turn.
Lowell Bergman: 'Tortious interference?' That sounds like a disease caught by a radio.
The Green Fairy: I'm the Green Fairy... The hills are alive, with The Sound Of Music.
Choi: It just sounds to me like you need to unplug, man.
Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
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.
Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.
I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.
I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.
