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In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Lou Reed

Drugs

Insanity

Sound

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Noel Redding

Sound

Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Suzi Quatro

Sound

Wood

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Ezra Pound

Instinct

Sound

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

Iggy Pop

Music

Sound

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Mary Pickford

Movies

Sound

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

Edith Piaf

People

Sound

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

Sam Phillips

Man

Sound

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

Oscar Peterson

Sound