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"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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"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."
"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."
"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."
"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."
"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."
"If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince."
"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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Sammy Davis, Jr.
"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."
"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."
"I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt."
"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."
"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."
"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."
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