"I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution."
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"I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes."
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"I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print."
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"How we sound was always the intention of how the band should sound. It has nothing with other options or going in a different direction. This has been the Evergreen Terrace sound all along and always will be."
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"[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful."
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"Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!"
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"I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else."
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"In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it."
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"For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound."
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"I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow."
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"Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound."
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"I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am."
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"Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest."
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"Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time."
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"That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors."
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"I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said."
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"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."
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"Music: what life, what living itself sounds like."
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"And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?"
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"You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder."
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