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When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.
She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound
Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too.
Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.
Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.
I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.
Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].
There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.
We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.
The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.
Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.
A lot of the post-1977 dancefloor disco sounds had their place at one time, but you can't bring them back unless you bring back a floor.
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.
Didgeridoo is a name that white people gave it when they came to Australia, from the sound that it makes. Its traditional name is yidaki.
I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.
I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.
Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.
Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.
I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.
I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds pretty serious.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.