#sounds

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗

— John Betjeman

#childhood #dark #grows #hour #measured

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#believing #fall #go #government #governments

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#another #argument #bad #beginning #cat

These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#clip #films #i #layer #material

To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#just #life #person #rest #same

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#big #everything #generating #good #listened

You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#neil #neil young #say #sounds #wayne

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#bands #children #find #follow #imitating

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#battle #beautiful #because #gives #help

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#call #hollow #immobile #love #rocks