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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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"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
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"I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out."
26
"The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic."
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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."
23
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
23
"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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"A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique."
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"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
21
"It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another."
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"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."
20
"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."
20
"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."
20
"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."
20
"Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith."
20
"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."
19
"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."
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"The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct."
18
"Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound."
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"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
18
"A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up."
18
"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."
17
"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."
17
"My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up."
17
"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound."
17
"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."
17
"What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much."
17
"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."
16
"It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears."
16
"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."
16
"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."
16
"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."
16
"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!"
16
"I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify."
16
"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."
16
"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."
15
"My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry."
15
"The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great."
15
"I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White."
15
"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
15
"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."
15
"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing."
15
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
14
"We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound."
14
"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
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"There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album."
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