It was what they said before every performance but tonight it sounded different, as if he really needed it.

In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: " I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar.

It sounded like, you know, like a black person, really.

We would play it with tubas, trombones and the big bass drum and it sounded really joyful.

Davies's however, was again an exception ; his buzzer, which sounded like a telephone, really was a telephone and not a lyrebird mimicking one.

As Columbus explained, his inspiration came from his loft, when at night " what sounded like a platoon of mice would come out and to hear them skittering around in the blackness was really creepy ".

There's really no reason behind it ; it just sounded cool.

songs sounded so great, but later on I was really disappointed with it.

Country Standard Time reviewer Jeffrey B. Remz thought that the album sounded " pleasant " but that " White's smooth, pretty voice never really sinks into the material "

After five days of playing together it actually sounded really good.

He sounded really desperate.

Just the way he described it, it sounded perfect, the kind of thing I really wanted to do so we just went with it.

sounded like, " being French kissed by the most beautiful beings in the world, really alluring yet massive stuff.

It really was sort of like Bob Dylan meets Phil Spector in the best way ... as if it had been recorded so the instruments sounded full and well-blended.

' It never really sounded like Fleetwood Mac ... but that was the point of origin.

On how the CD came together, Tony said " We had been playing live with that line-up and the shows sounded really good so we just went in and recorded the band live and finished the thing in about ten days.

Madonna dismissed the song after hearing the demo, which she thought sounded " really stupid and retarded ".

It sounded really bubble-gummy to me, but it grew on me.

It sounded like a fair enough invitation, Peter Marshall reflected, and Bang-Jensen must have thought so too, because on the thirteenth, he met the group of three on the thirty-sixth floor of the U.N..

She sounded so exactly like Doaty that Henrietta obeyed her under the clear impression that she could either comply or stay home.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

The album is a bittersweet song cycle of alienation, paranoia and lysergic hokum, but nothing else from the so-called summer of love sounded quite so ambitious.

It is considered particularly ironic that Atatürk himself, in his lengthy speech to the new Parliament in 1927, used a style of Ottoman which sounded so alien to later listeners that it had to be " translated " three times into modern Turkish: first in 1963, again in 1986, and most recently in 1995.

I didn't relate to Sharon Tate as being anything but a store mannequin ... sounded just like an IBM machine ... She kept begging and pleading and pleading and begging, and I got sick of listening to her, so I stabbed her.

Roger North ( 1695 ) said ‘ Nothing comes so near or rather imitates so much an excellent voice as a cornett pipe ; but the labour of the lips is too great and it is seldom well sounded ’ ( see Wilson, 1959 ).

However, Lillian Disney, Walt's wife, believed the name " Mortimer " sounded too much like ' mortified ' and ' mortician ' and suggested the name Mickey instead, so " Mortimer " later became the name of Mickey's rival.

I had Godric narrate his own life, and despite the problem of developing a language that sounded authentic on his lips without becoming impenetrably archaic, and despite the difficulties of trying to recapture a time and place so unlike my own, the book, like Lion Country before it, came so quickly and with such comparative ease that there were times when I suspected that maybe the old saint himself was not entirely uninvolved in the process, as, were I a saint and were somebody writing a book about me, I would not be entirely uninvolved in the process either.

The band Muse had taken some of the heat for this with the invention of BellDom, where they have the drummer ( Dominic Howard ) and the guitarist ( Matt Bellamy, who once declared that " MuseSlash " sounded so interesting that he would definitely check out what it was about ) in a relationship, there are many other forms of Muse Slash but BellDom became the most famous one.

The Greek tyrant Phalaris, of Akragas in Sicily, is said to have roasted his enemies alive in a brazen bull ; it was devised for him by a workman named Perillus or Perilaos, who made it so that the screams of the victims sounded like the roaring of a bull ; when Perillus asked for his reward, he became the first victim.

He compressed the heck out of my 12-string, and it sounded so great we decided to use two tube compressors Teletronix LA-2As in series, and then go directly into the board.

" Klein also commented that " never has it been harder to discern just what is singing, but rarely has her gibberish sounded so pleasant.

* Doris Singleton as Caroline Appleby ( she was originally named Lillian Appleby ; but after Singleton's first appearance on the show, the producers felt that the names Lillian and Lucy sounded too similar, so her name was changed to Caroline )

In truth, a few songs sounded like solo efforts, while Lodge's " Survival ", Hayward's appropriate closing " The Day We Meet Again " and Pinder's lone final contribution and lead vocal, " One Step Into The Light " ( curiously as the band is depicted as doing so on the cover photo – where Pinder is perhaps significantly barely glimpsed at all and almost out of focus ) were all high points on the album.

He used the sustain pedal sparingly so that each note was clearly articulated, chords were cleanly sounded and the melodic line would not be blurred.

He said of Crabtree's work on Brisco, " Her horses sounded so natural and real – their hooves, the sound of their hooves on the texture of the ground, the sound of saddle movement, bridle jingles – it was as good as anything I would want for a feature film, and this was episodic television.

Instead, it is assumed that the two cycles will always be in phase so that the shofar can be sounded in the seventh year of the seventh Sabbatical cycle.

The two ended up becoming so close that their friendship was mocked by others, and their arguments sounded so much like husband and wife that a whole episode was dedicated to the notion that the two argued like a married couple.

We have heard various ways, but none that sounded so naturally and well as by accenting the second syllable, thus Ma-zom-anie, the accent as in Menominee.

While Pratt's laugh track had its share of recognizable chuckles as well, the chuckles are considerably quieter, and much more subtle, compared to Douglass ', which had become so familiar and ubiquitous that they sounded artificial.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine, who used to often seclude herself in her room, often sounded through the closed door -- as I would find on passing by, between our sessions -- for all the world like two persons, a scolding mother and a defensive child.

In the article published in the Journal, a line from " Floater " (" I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound ") was traced to a line in the book, which said " I'm not as cool or forgiving as I might have sounded.

John I. Taylor had said in December 1907 that the Pilgrims “ sounded too much like homeless wanderers .”

Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.

Morris would later recall an early conversation with Julia: " I was talking to a mass murderer but I was thinking of you ," he said, and instantly regretted it, afraid that it might not have sounded as affectionate as he had wished.

When it was played over to me and I heard my own voice for the first time, one or two friends who were present said that it sounded rather like mine ; others declared that they would never have recognised it.

The same year, Orbison was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen, who concluded his speech with a reference to his own song " Thunder Road ": " I wanted a record with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector — but, most of all, I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison.

Replays clearly showed the whistle blew before the play's onset, plus most of the players pulled up and stopped playing after a whistle sounded, but Henderson claimed, " I didn't hear a whistle until after I had knocked Bradshaw down.

Jesperson was convinced the song sounded like a hit, and pleaded to fellow Twin / Tone co-owners Stark and Hallman: " I will do anything to get this out.

Smith has stated: " I've sounded pretty much the same way since I was six.

Smith later recalled " I always sounded too much like a girl, I read two lines as Bart and they said, ' Thanks for coming!

Smith later recalled: " I always sounded too much like a girl, I read two lines as Bart and they said, ' Thanks for coming!

He had written " I Must Be In Love " which he realised sounded very " Beatley " and thought of the Rutles skit.

* When Elizabeth said " ouch " after stubbing her toe on a chair, Mitchell said something that sounded like: " You better be quiet, and I won't hurt you.