I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious but I want to live and breathe cinema.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion I would say I was against it.

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

There is no man more dangerous in a position of power than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

A buoyant positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street the battlers by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

It's time to let science and medicine not politics and rhetoric lead us to good sound policy.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

From my music training I knew that some Spanish rhythms apart 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

Perhaps no person can be a poet or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.

For my part if I consider poetry as an object I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain the sound of wind in a primeval wood and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

We talk of our mastery of nature which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves first to her ways.

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

Music is what our feelings sound like.