But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.