#sound

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. ↗

— Charles Olson

#first #me #poem #realized #simply

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855. ↗

— George Osborne

#better #conservative #conservative party #like #man

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#doing #gothic #hate #i #like

I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry. ↗

— Buck Owens

#basic #berry #bit #change #chuck

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State. ↗

— Major R. Owens

#calls #children #clearly #e-mails #education

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance. ↗

— Larry Page

#circular #complicated #importance #out #quite

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#commercial #did #first #i #know

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#basically #become #company #demands #enormous

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#being #chaos #chasing #crowd #exciting