#sound

I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#change #changed #come #early #found

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#education #end #factory #fidelity #going

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#administrative #color #course #fire #fit

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all? ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ago #asked #co-operative #composers #course

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound. ↗

— Terry Riley

#abstract #create #decided #doing #experimentation

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#concern #difficulties #each #every #getting

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock. ↗

— Roselyn Sanchez

#bilingual #bullock #came #going #here

Who are you? What’s your name?” “Mi Mi.” “Do you hear that thumping noise?” “No.” “It must be here somewhere.” Tin Win knelt down. Now it was nearly next to his ear. “I hear it more and more distinctly. A soft pulsing. You really don’t hear it?” “No.” “Close your eyes.” Mi Mi closed her eyes. “Nothing,” she said, and laughed. Tin Win leaned over and felt her breath on his face. “I think it’s coming from you.” He crept closer to her and held his head just in front of her chest. There it was. Her heartbeat. ↗

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

#heartbeat #love #sounds #art

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. ↗

— Leonard Slatkin

#hands #i #like #mold #sculptor

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. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#did #find #found #half #i