I’m a national security liberal, which I tell people because it’s meant to sound absurd. – Rachel Maddow
I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old – it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. – Robert Morris
I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn’t feel terribly comfortable in it. – Raymond Bonner
‘The Sound of Music’ did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders. – Richard D. Zanuck
My first-ever date on my first tour, the sound completely cut out. So I had to go on and just shout loudly to the audience. – Rebecca Ferguson
We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck’s sense of hearing must be injured: for him the ‘ear trumpet’ magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before. – Robert James Graves
Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke – Go and have a look in my bedroom, It’s covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence. – Ringo Starr
The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more. – Roger McGuinn
There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music. – Paul Oakenfold
I really feel that if it wasn’t for the accident, I’d still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained. – Roberto Duran
I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people’s shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years. – Rob Riggle
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve. – Roman Jakobson
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking. – Robert Morgan
The greatest thing is nobody cares that I’m fifty years old. They only care what I sound like. – Rob Paulsen
My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps. – Roscoe Mitchell
People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don’t know if they do or not. – Ric Ocasek
I fight with pizazz. It’s a different sound from everyone else. It’s the sound of pizazz. – Ronda Rousey
I’d never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees’ sound. I’m very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I’ll be identified as a Bee Gee. – Robin Gibb
I kept listening to albums where I’d hear this very joyful sound – and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it. – Rachel Boston
Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I’d like the rhythm of the tracks to sound. – Richard D. James
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. – Paul Twitchell
I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It’s embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice. – Oscar Isaac
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn’t sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can’t shake, so it’s not phony anymore. – Ryan Gosling
