#sound

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#comes #definitive #delivered #even #grunge

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#brain #line #make #music #rhythm

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#cab #difficult #driving #first #found

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then. ↗

— Alan Vega

#because #buttons #every #in-between #kind

I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#any #arena #beginning #big #booming

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#cheerful #comes #curious #double #i

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do. ↗

— David Duchovny

#angle #been #come #fear #fit

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#feature #happen #idea #instrumentation #particular

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#celebrate #everyone #i #like #me

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me. ↗

— Fred Durst

#affected #against #emotionally #feel #got