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Sound Designer Inspirational Quotes (58)

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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Walter Murch
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You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
Walter Murch
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
Walter Murch
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As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.
Walter Murch
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Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
Walter Murch
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The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
Walter Murch
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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
James Brown
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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
James Brown
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I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.
James Brown
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Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.
Gary Rydstrom
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown
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Thank God for the journey.
James Brown
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Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.
James Brown
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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
James Brown
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Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.
Walter Murch
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Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
James Brown
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
James Brown
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Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker you don't yet know where the stems of the flowers are.
Walter Murch
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Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.
Ben Burtt
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Money won't change you, but time will take you out.
James Brown
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It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.
James Brown
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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
James Brown
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We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
James Brown
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Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
James Brown
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