#sound

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#bass #began #finger #like #should

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #attempts #because #birth #break

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #continuity #decorum #easy #explosion

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#i #identified #like #more #new

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#best #choices #given #making #most

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#chance #commercial #create #different #different way

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#difficult #get #good #instrument #least

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#art #disco #everything #many #misunderstanding

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone. ↗

— John Madden

#football #funny #goalline #john-madden #running