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Sound Quotes
"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."
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"Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective."
38
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
37
"If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince."
37
"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."
37
"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."
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"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."
36
"What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much."
36
"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."
35
"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."
35
"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
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"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."
34
"If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good."
34
"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
34
"I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White."
34
"There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album."
34
"I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him."
34
"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."
33
"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."
33
"If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do."
33
"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."
33
"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."
32
"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."
32
"I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage."
32
"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
31
"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."
31
"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
31
"The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed."
31
"I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock."
31
"When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes."
31
"I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative."
30
"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."
30
"In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm."
29
"Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head."
29
"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."
28
"It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument."
28
"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."
28
"I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth."
27
"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."
26
"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."
26
"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."
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