#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

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions. ↗

— Tim Reid

#create #decisions #doing #historical #history

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

#great #how #i #i believe #just

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#breathe #cinema #could #guess #i

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#direction #instruments #modern #sound #throw

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#always #course #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing