Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

"It makes for this haunted sort of sound. It's a little bit like a wine glass, when you play a wine glass.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

I was only 12, but I tried to sound like I had been doing this for years.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

It was a low,dull, quick sound like a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Fans loved the special way she rolled her "r"s to create a sound like a cat.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

We leave you now with some examples, which we have strung together like beads of sound.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The seven musicians produce a big sound, like in "Wake Up" from their first album,"Funeral."

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Suddenly,he put his hand into the water and rubbed two of his fingers together, making a strange sound, exactly like the sound of a croaking frog.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

He used rhyming words, words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

A leatherneck or a grunt do not sound like nice names to call someone.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

He wanted the music to sound like the streets of Chagall's neighborhood in Russia.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Alfred tried to sound big, but deep down he was like a child.

VOA: special.2010.09.11

She says the drum beats sound like robots walking in the snow.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

But what would they sound like if they were turned into music?

VOA: special.2010.03.24