Sound Quotes - Page 17

• It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Believe, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• When Hillary Clinton says no boots on the ground, now, whether you want boots on the ground or not you shouldn't say it because you've just taken - so she said there will be no boots on the ground, she's very strong because politics, you know, it sounds a little bit better to say no boots on the ground.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Taken, Boots

  Source: time.com

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• People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

  Petra Haden

  Pages Turning, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about the same every time. But jamming is different. Jamming is when you make the music. When you improvise and adapt to conditions. When you are creative.

  John Kao

  Creative, Different, Wrong Answers

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right [at] any time.

  Alan Sparhawk

  Thinking, Guarantees, May

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The latest trend seems to be these DJs doing pre-recorded sets, in perfect pitch with the lights & acts on stage. Everything is centred around the action from the stage. It doesn't even demand action coming from the crowd! Passive consumerism or something. Mayhem with an overwhelming sound that isn't actually good music. More like diarrhoea.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Light, Perfect, Demand

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my mind!

  Eddy de Clercq

  Years, House, Mind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and that is what I was going for in my book "Sound Unbound" was to try and get people to figure out how do we unpack some of the meanings that go into these kinds of sonically coded landscapes.

  DJ Spooky

  Book, Simple, People

  Big Think Interview, April 8, 2010.

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• I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

  Justin Adams

  Song, Prayer, Memories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're going to make America wealthy again, because if you don’t do that, it just - it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth of our nation.

  Donald Trump

  America, Wealth, Harsh

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and eleven minutes. This is two hours and twenty-five minutes, and I did try bringing it down. For instance, I considered cutting out the sequence with the family looking at pictures.

  Sonia Braga

  Cutting, Aquarius, Two

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don't talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me. They've just memorized that stupid fact sheet. And we thought, gosh do we sound that good? It didn't seem possible. But that was my introduction to politics.

  Bill Ayers

  Brother, Stupid, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."

  Norm MacDonald

  Hollywood, Odd Things, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.

  Jay Michaelson

  Dream, Roots, Broken

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you." When I wrote it, I thought, "This isn't going to sound very folky. I don't think it's going to go with mandolins and banjos." Then he played the loop for me and it sounded right.

  Dar Williams

  Thinking, Play, Want

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• Every artist has a very particular sound and style.

  Ali Shirazinia

  Artist, Style, Particular

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• When you're on a sound stage and you're shooting a fire stunt, this weird thing happens where the fire eats up all the oxygen and everybody gets a little dingy.

  Robert Englund

  Oxygen, Fire, Shooting

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and how to react when you're approached by fans after a show or in the airport. It might sound silly, but a lot of those things come into play when you're playing a character.

  Randy Orton

  Father, Silly, Character

  Source: www.espn.com

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• We try to be present when we are drinking our tea, which isn't as easy as it sounds. It's very easy to think, right now I'm going to be really present while I'm drinking my tea, here I am drinking my tea, and I'm so present, look this is easy, I am here drinking my tea and I know I'm drinking my tea blah blah blah blah... right? And the one place where the mind is not, is here. It's just thinking about being here.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Drinking, Thinking, Here I Am

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• What was this big sound bite, though, at the time? It was, "Will Donald Trump and his supporters accept the election results." He won.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Election Results, Accepting, Bigs

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So I'd stay there all night and leave in the morning, observe the sun rise and have a lot of different kinds of sounds in my mind. But it was a quest, it was a search. It was research, it was learning.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Morning, Night, Class

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Listening, Radio

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Way, Lasts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising.

  Ani DiFranco

  Party, House, Together

  Source: www.elle.com

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