#sound

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

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound. ↗

— Les Paul

#i #long #mellow #more #pieces

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!' ↗

— Jane Pauley

#been #boss #cocoon #desk #fist

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#because #bother #call #dad #different

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#group #important #playing #solo #sound

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. ↗

— Michael Porter

#having #right #sound #starts #strategy

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

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#i think #lost #lot #movies #sound

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations. ↗

— Joey Ramone

#foundations #just #kinda #now #our

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#aspects #bringing #came #divide #done