#sound

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ↗

— Billy Gibbons

#composed #fear #feeling #finesse #like

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#burst #came #columns #each #fire

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#bands #cash #distraction #else #except

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #i #lonely #most #negative

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#communication #deeper #far #good #interesting

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#break #corporate #doing #go #independent

I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#album #asked #beautiful #because #been

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#both #conscious #ear #head #how

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#beautiful #bottom #drops #enhances #everything

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#doing #groovy #homework #i #just