Quotes About Amplification

Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

It had been Bosch's experience that when you looked back at a life, you used a magnifying glass. Everything was bigger, amplified.

Compared with other drugs, psychedelics seldom affect people the same way twice, because they tend to magnify whatever's already going on both inside and outside one's head.

Nothing is more annoying than a great singer getting drowned out by a loud guitar.

A good microphone is an essential thing for a singer.

Every word after that had been unintelligible, dissolved in amplification. Blackburn rather enjoyed that. He thought that any band that believed its lyrics were crucial was kidding itself. Kids out on Saturday night wanted to drink, dance, yell "Wooooooo!" and have sex with somebody. They didn't want to hear a bad poet bare the angst in his tortured and immature soul. They could go to college for that shit.

Sequels always have to be bigger.

I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.

One of the most important things about using a bullhorn is you don't have to yell over it.

In my opinion, the P-90 is the best pickup for slide - it has the right overtones.

These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

I love anything that has to do with expanding and becoming more than you can actually become. Going further than you did before.

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

What starts out linear becomes geometric. You

It's like compound interest with a turbocharger.

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Amplification of guitars revolutionized the popular music scene. Youngsters look for quick fame and big money with amplified guitars and working with rock groups.

Advertisers use sophisticated psychological methods to manipulate our desires, thoughts, and behaviors. The goal is to create a need where none previously existed, or to amplify a need.

There's a lot of talk now about the PC police, and 'why is everything bad?' It isn't. What it is, is that marginalized and oppressed people who have never had a soapbox, who have never been given a microphone, suddenly have a microphone.

One of the most incredible things I believe that social media has done, is that it genuinely just amplifies what's inside us already.

There is no such thing as a rock-and-roll venue; there's not one in the world that's made to play this kind of music as an ideal form.