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

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

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

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

Their dreamy songs sound like they came from another time period.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

It looks like a small plane. It feels like a small plane, but it doesn't sound like a small plane.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

"he doesn't sound like him ' So that was entirely personal something I had to satisfy for myself to answer certain personal questions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

What does that sound like? Here's a version of "Workingman Blues" recorded during the 2008 festival.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"I got the idea for the multi-track from my mom, who said,'You know,Lester, you sound like everybody else and everybody else is sounding like you.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Tell me what I sound like in 2009 and '10.' And,they nailed it."

VOA: standard.2009.06.24