The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.
From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
I think I sound like Barry White.
I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.
I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.
If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.