Quotes: Sound

I’ve learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that’s why my sound has become a little more pop.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that’s what joins musicians together around the world.

Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.

I don’t think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it’s people that I think about all the time.

I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.