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"There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes."
"My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general."
"For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman."
"The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune."
"You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose."
"I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth."
"The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished."
"My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits."
"Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised."
"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
"If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing."
"... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters"
"How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!"
"The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears."
"I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative."
"...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way."
"My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron."
"What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words."
"And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound."
"I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man."
