Sound Identity Quotes

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs 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.

Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

I really wanted people just to get to know Solange on my first album, just to establish Solange's sound, just to establish Solange's personality.

Legs' wouldn't be 'Legs' unless it had that driving synth bass.

It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.

Creed's sound is my sound.

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

I've worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop Dogg ... right across to working with pop stars like Justin Timberlake. Why those artists came to me is because they wanted my sound.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Sometimes it takes a while to find that perfect balance between knowing who you are, what your sound is, and building the right team to make that happen. Once it all really comes together and it makes sense, both for the audience and your fans, there's no stopping you.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

In terms of the production, the style I use is what I see as the 'Lisa Stansfield sound' and I would hope that when anyone puts on one of my songs they don't even have to listen to my voice to know this is a Lisa Stansfield song, because of the way it sounds.

The TLC sound! That's what's so awesome - we have our own sound.

You can't pick a fight with anyone doing something with your sound.

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.