Bill Bryson Quotes

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

Let there be bass.

I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

I hate karaoke. I don't want to sing karaoke, and I don't want to listen to people sing karaoke.

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

It can be really weird to say, 'Hey man, let's make a record and start with this horrible zither sound.' But I was obsessed with the idea of taking a sound and completely phenomenologically thrashing it."

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

The idea behind stamped money is sound.

I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty....you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way.

A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.