Sound Quotes - Page 5

• Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you'll see a bird that doesn't... you know smash right into a glass window. It's very funny.

  DJ Spooky

  Glasses, Bird, Bats

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.

  DJ Spooky

  Hands, Symphony, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

  DJ Spooky

  Writing, Mean, Roots

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird things like that. I mean this is very real. Like, if you look at the satellites in the sky at night you know it's an eerie sense of we're.

  DJ Spooky

  Real, Ocean, Mean

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one.

  Randy Thom

  Couple, Awards, Editing

  "Potato, potahto, craft, tech, let’s call the whole thing off", uproxx.com. November 16, 2011.

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• So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you just want to see everything and navigate. You know the art world is similar. Like I wish people would use their ears a lot more.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Eye, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Oracles, These Days, Physicist

  "The Dark River". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2007.

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• So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea of elusive and intangible things. That could be psychological. It could be perceptual. It could be just the way your ears help you just navigate around.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Thinking, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Cancer, Fighting, Thinking

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

  Cass Sunstein

  Ideas, Cost, Regulation

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

  Gogen Yamaguchi

  Art, Clever, Moving

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• I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.

  DJ Spooky

  Trying, World, Levels

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. A strong spirit transcends rules,' Prince once said - and nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his band, and all who loved him.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Prayer, Artist

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• If you repeat something enough it can literally physically change the air particles around you and it can infuse the air with this sacred sound vibration, or it can change your material body, like transform your flesh to spirit. These are all beliefs within the Hare Krishna philosophy we were brought up with.

  Taraka Larson

  Philosophy, Air, Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can hike into the Yellowstone backcountry. You can camp in the Yellowstone backcountry. You can take food into the Yellowstone backcountry, and you're surrounded by grizzly bears. And it's - it's a very, very thrilling, peculiar situation. Every sound that you hear in the night, you wonder is this a grizzly bear coming to tear into my tent?

  David Quammen

  Night, Yellowstone, Tears

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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• I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Voice, Guitar, Lessons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.

  Robert Barry

  Pieces, Bigs, Strict

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.

  Taraka Larson

  People, Magic, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Russia, Japan

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.

  James Dashner

  Book, Faces, Sometimes

  "The Maze Onscreen: Q&A with 'The Maze Runner' Author James Dashner". Interview with Tom Blunt, www.signature-reads.com. September 19, 2014.

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• This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

  Alastair Campbell

  Football, Team, Believe

  "NewsPeople Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Teaching, Writing, Creative

  "No Tall Tales: An Interview With Yuriy Tarnawsky". Interview With David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• We have many dreams and many different chapters in life and I think life is about chapters. For me, from the time I was pretty young, I always thought that if I was lucky enough to achieve my dreams and if I had financial security, at a certain point in my life I wanted to give back. I wanted, just corny as it sounds, to try and make the world a better place.

  Sherry Lansing

  Dream, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I want to design for the working women. Okay well - it sounds like 90% of us are that. But really, we are more. We are working women who like to cook, to travel; we are a girlfriend, a writer. We are so much more than just being defined by the one job we have.

  Sarah Lafleur

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Design

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing. It's almost like hearing the most beautiful music you've ever heard, so you're like, "What's the point of me making anything?" It was this living sonic organism so the idea of recording something just seemed like taking this living thing and mummifying it.

  Taraka Larson

  Beautiful, Block, Taken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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