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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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"The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic."
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"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
16
"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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"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!"
14
"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."
13
"A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up."
13
"A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique."
13
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
13
"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."
13
"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
12
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
12
"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."
12
"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."
12
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out."
12
"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."
11
"My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry."
11
"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."
11
"I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie."
11
"My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up."
11
"Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone."
11
"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."
11
"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."
11
"Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith."
11
"The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great."
10
"It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears."
10
"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."
10
"Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound."
10
"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
10
"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
10
"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."
10
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
9
"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."
9
"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."
9
"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible."
9
"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."
9
"The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."
9
"There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album."
9
"When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes."
9
"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."
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"We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound."
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