"French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch."
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"Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns"
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"I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on."
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"It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something."
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"In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food."
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"Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work."
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"Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological."
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"Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes."
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"I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?"
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"Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound."
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"I used to hate the sound of my voice."
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"I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule."
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"Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same."
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"Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!"
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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."
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"'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'"
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"When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s."
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"[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look."
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"I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away."
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"What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion."
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