"I don't like when everything sounds the same."
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"52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000."
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"The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment."
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"There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum."
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"The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance."
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"Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?"
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"It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound."
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"I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well."
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"He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance."
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"I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is."
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"End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)"
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"I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound."
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"It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be."
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"They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation."
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"That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life."
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"Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too."
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"The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds."
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"Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning."
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"Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant."
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"Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious contact with your Source and achieve success in every area. If a problem arises, then go within, get very quiet about it and find the answers inside of you"
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