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"Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing."
"We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time."
"The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres."
"People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light.'"
"A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am."
"There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone."
"We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound."
"A chord is just the name of a sound."
"To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me."
"I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time."
"What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience."
"For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else."
"Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick."
"The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven."
"Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions."
"The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration."
"Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph."
"However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself."
"A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be."
"At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . "They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , " he said . "You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17)"
