The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.
It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.
When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!
Cammie's going to be mad she missed this," Macey said to fill the silence. "Excuse me?" Hale asked. "Nothing. " She shook her head. "I just. . . I have a friend who really likes air vents. And dumbwaiter shafts. And laundry chutes. Of course, the last time I was in a laundry chute, Cammie and I fell about a dozen stories. . . " "well, that sounds like fun. " "it was either that or get kidnapped by terrorists, so I guess we got of easy.
Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?
The next time someone says "This sounds great, but I just don't have the TIME. . . " Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, "Would you like to change that?"
Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
I remember when I took the role on E. R. , I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.
I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.
The Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.
I'm always thinking of ideas and sounds. I am waiting on something new and dope to inspire me.
Told you. Everything sounds better in the car wash.
I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. “I never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I have been walking the sidewalks of fashion from the beginning, so I’m a bit dark.
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.
It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.
Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?