"I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant."
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"In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything."
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"He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice."
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"Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears."
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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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"Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities."
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"I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready."
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"I never try and sound like Sabbath."
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"Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound."
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"I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity."
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"From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound."
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"Places like Ministry of Sound are too druggie for me. Smaller, local places are where it's at for me."
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"The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape."
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"A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny."
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"We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government."
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"The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds."
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"When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true."
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"One sound blow will serve to undo us all."
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"Emptie vessels sound most."
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""In the beginning was the word" and that's the thing about Krishna, saying Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, so it's not the word that you're saying, it's the sound: Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna and it's just sounds and it's great."
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