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"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."
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"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
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"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."
"For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times."
"I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots."
"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."
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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
"The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning."
"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."
"Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language."
"The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features."
"Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve."
"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."
"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc."
"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
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