Sound quotes
3.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside sound — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush."
"When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto."
"When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment."
"I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience."
"If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it."
"I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts."
"I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles."
"I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop."
"Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry."
"I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to."
"They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised."
"I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that."
"I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less."
"The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure."
"Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!"
"Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless."
"The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row."
"Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers."
"Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake."
"What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound."
