#sound

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. ↗

— Ian Williams

#closer #distortion #guitar #i #i think

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#got #like #musical #same #song

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#decades #good #history #much #over

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. ↗

— Robert Frost

#call #consciously #english #i #make

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot. ↗

— James Spader

#death #dog #firearms #had #i

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified. ↗

— John Sununu

#affair #also #burden #business #businesses

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#basically #because #equivalents #good #home

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#dangerous #does #even #fixing #idea

But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#elsewhere #evidence #excused #give #hand

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#drums #hear #i #kinda #life