"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."

Sound,

25

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."

Exlpore more Sound quotes

"I don't think you can contrive any sound."

George Shearing, British Musician

Sound,

"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Sound, Energy, Eternity, Impact

"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."

Mike Shinoda, American Musician

Sound, Waiting

"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."

Tom Chapin, American Musician

Sound, Will, Years

"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."

Dick Dale, American Musician

Sound,

"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."

Jerry Harrison, American Musician

Sound, Will

"If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good."

Casey Abrams, American Musician

Sound,

"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."

Bette Davis, American Actress

Sound, Years

"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."

Sammy Davis, Jr., American Entertainer

Sound, Want, Sammy Davis, Jr.

"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."

Evel Knievel, American Entertainer

Sound,

Explore more quotes by Steve Lacy

"I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination."

Imagination

"Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first."

First

"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."

Experts

"I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz."

History

"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."

Strategy

"The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity."

Music

"I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever."

History

25

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Sound quotes

"I don't think you can contrive any sound."

"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."

"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."

"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."

"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."

"If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good."

"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."

"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."

"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."

Explore more quotes by Steve Lacy

"I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination."

"Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first."

"Saxophone is one thing, and music is another."

"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."

"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."

"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."

"I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz."

"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."

"The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity."

"I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever."