"The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound."
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"I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb."
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"You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible."
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"Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music."
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"I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running."
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"I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny."
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"It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided."
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"Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass"
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"Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises."
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"A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up."
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"If I feel really authentically in my body, then everything seems to click. But, sometimes I can only get into that, if the atmosphere is already conducive to that with the sound and all that stuff. There are moments where, as a performer, you're on stage and you feel like you're exactly where you're meant to be in the universe. It's a rare and beautiful thing when it happens."
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"All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!"
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"One story sounds good until another is told"
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"I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear"
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"You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound."
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"I saw a sign that said, 'Watch for children.' I was like, 'That sounds like a fair trade - especially if they're crappy kids.'"
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"It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies."
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"Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced."
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"When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like Silverchair and bands like that that are super young and sound extremely derivative of bands that were out at that current moment. As they sounded like 'Nirvana in pajamas' as we called them, we sounded like Bon Jovi and Skid Row and Motley Crue, because we were only influenced by what was out at the time because we were so young"
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"Every artist has a very particular sound and style."
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