Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

- Alton Brown

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

- Afrika Bambaataa

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

- Adam Mansbach

To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

- Adam Mansbach

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

- Adam Jones

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

- Adam Jones

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

- Adam Jones

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

- Abraham Verghese

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

- Audra McDonald

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

- Arthur Koestler

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

- Abu Bakr

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

- Alexander Payne

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

- Ace Frehley

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

- Ani DiFranco

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

- Angus Young

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

- Aneurin Bevan

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.

- Alice Cooper

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

- Alfred Hitchcock

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

- Alfred Hitchcock

When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

- Adam Carolla