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Muddy Waters Quote: 'That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound ...'

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I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.


Little Milton
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.
Robbie Robertson
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Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.


Chris Squire
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.


Alan Dundes
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I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.
Grey DeLisle
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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
Feist
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I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.
Robbie Robertson
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A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
Huey Lewis
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What I can offer the game is creating a sound that, when you hear it, you know it's mine.


Jeremih
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You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.
Eminem
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When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.


Phil Spector
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As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends and fads run through the social organization of the population of musicians in the same way that they would run through a high school.
Steve Albini
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.


Walshy Fire
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Skrillex has been successful because he has a recognizable sound: You hear a dubstep song: even if it's not him, you think it's him.
Thomas Bangalter
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I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.


Theophilus London
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I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
Muddy Waters
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Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.
Evelyn Glennie
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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
Ben Folds
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.


Augustus
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I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
Justin Timberlake
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