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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.
Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.
It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.
Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta.
The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.
I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.
But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.
A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.
I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.
The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.
I'm trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that's really fresh.
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.
I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.
We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.
'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.
That's really the Holy Grail of conducting: how to change the sound of an orchestra just with our hands alone.
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.
How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.
I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.
This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.
I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South
Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.
He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.
An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.
Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.