#sound

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands. ↗

— Michael Giles

#bands #blues #go #jazz #led

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#aware #down #find #get #go

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#deep #hear #i #often #orchestra

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#planet #power #role #sound

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#combine #commissioned #composer #composers #creator

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#instrument #know #knows #nobody #out

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#corny #crack #goal #market #may

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#corny #hard #i #i believe #i believe in

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off. ↗

— Howard Stringer

#books #competing #dying #get #hell

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#counterfeit #intonation #laughing #laughter #mind