#sound

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#almost #because #been #daily #day

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#bat #harbinger #returning #sound #spring

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#break #corporate #doing #go #independent

I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#album #asked #beautiful #because #been

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#both #conscious #ear #head #how

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#beautiful #bottom #drops #enhances #everything

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#doing #groovy #homework #i #just

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#always #bad #come #everything #father

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#awful #even #great #great time #had

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools. ↗

— Don Henley

#drum #how #machines #phony #plastic