On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.
It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
I would say our sound is soul pop.
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.