I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
Jim Carrey

I take sounds and change them into words.
Brian Eno

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
Afrika Bambaataa

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
Al Gore

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
Justin Timberlake

I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
F. Murray Abraham

We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.
Albert Finney

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie

As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
Damon Albarn

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Jean de la Bruyere

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
Jay-Z

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Richard Wagner

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley