"I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago"
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"I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it."
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"Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything."
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"Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain."
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"Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself."
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"And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound."
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"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."
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"I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks."
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"Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning."
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"The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself."
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"Truth sounds paradoxical!"
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"Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating."
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"When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands."
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"It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do."
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"When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me."
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"I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly"
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"Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!"
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"Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force."
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"I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb."
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"I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw."
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