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Sound Quotes
"All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together."
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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."
12
"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."
10
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
10
"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
10
"It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!"
8
"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."
8
"My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry."
7
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
7
"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."
7
"I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound."
7
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
6
"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."
6
"I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place."
6
"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
6
"I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop."
6
"Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith."
6
"And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit."
5
"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
5
"We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound."
5
"It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears."
5
"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."
5
"Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound."
5
"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
5
"A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up."
5
"A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique."
5
"The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic."
5
"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."
5
"If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do."
5
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out."
5
"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."
5
"Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for."
4
"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."
4
"I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records."
4
"The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great."
4
"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible."
4
"I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative."
4
"It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument."
4
"If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince."
4
"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."
4
"When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record."
4
"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."
4
"I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it."
4
"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."
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