People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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.
I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.
We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.
One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.
I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.