Unusual Sounds Quotes

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.

I always like to do something different in every song.

Listeners want fresh voices.

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound of billions of very small feet hitting the stones in perfect time. Rincewind stepped gingerly over the marching column. The Librarian jumped it. The Luggage, of course, followed them with a noise like someone tapdancing over a bag of crisps.

My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many horror movies and thrillers.

If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.

I like pop music. I also like the sound of a dying refrigerator. I can listen to that for an hour and a half if I'm in the mood.

My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody.

I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe organ almost like a scratchy record which he started [inaudible] brilliantly. "Oh I love that song." And when things go fine, it's good. So he started loving that song and that song was used quite a lot in the movie which is very granulated stuff on the guitar.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.