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Tom Verlaine

"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."

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"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."

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Asa Don Brown

"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."

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Asa Don Brown

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

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Asa Don Brown

"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."

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Asa Don Brown

"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."

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Asa Don Brown

"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."

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Asa Don Brown

"This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument."

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Asa Don Brown

"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."

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Asa Don Brown

"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."

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Asa Don Brown

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

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