"Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another."
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"I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day."
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"My name sounds French but that's just a stage name."
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"The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds."
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"Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles."
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"Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar."
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"The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing."
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"I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that."
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"Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound."
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"It's not as bad as it sounds."
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"I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles."
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"It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds."
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"For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue."
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"You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent."
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"My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler."
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"The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage."
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"When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language."
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"It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate."
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"Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family."
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"A sound mind in a manly body."
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