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Quotes About Noise

Drone manufacturers have yet to create a drone capable of delivering packages while operating at a decibel level that isn't disruptive to communities.
~ Robin Hayes
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
~ Thomas Beecham
I am aware that people at large are constantly angry with the Congress because they feel we are shouting. We are making noise, but there is a very serious reason for it. Parliamentary rules are not being followed.
~ Sonia Gandhi
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
~ Peter Minard
Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth. By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task. It's a great deal. Just put on some earmuffs and you become 5-10% smarter.
~ Peter Rogers
Not until Plato's Republic was a type of politician created who would no longer serve as a loudspeaker, but rather as a receiver of quiet ideas – with little success, as we know, as the introduction of the quiet politician is yet to come. It would be a contradiction in terms, for politics, as the art of what is possible in noise, remains assigned to the loud side of the phonotope
~ Peter Sloterdijk
The static's nice. I could do without the screeching." "Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful . Like old jazz.
~ Peter Watts
Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
~ Phyllis Diller
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.
~ Chip Kidd
I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.
~ George Murray
The neighbors prefer I don't do vocals at night. It gets a little iffy when I'm screaming.
~ Aesop Rock
I try to look after my voice. I am very aware that if I am going to be doing a voice over the next day or on the radio, not to go out to a really noisy place or shout.
~ Sara Cox
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
~ Federico Fellini
I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate.
~ Paul Gilbert
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.
~ Eve Best
The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
~ Javier Bardem
If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
~ Jon Stewart
The enemy is noise. The goal is clarity.
~ Jon Stewart
It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
felt great numbers of people on my left side relaxing the cords to such a degree, that I was able to turn upon my right, and to ease myself with making water; which I very plentifully did, to the great astonishment of the people; who, conjecturing by my motion what I was going to do, immediately opened to the right and left on that side, to avoid the torrent, which fell with such noise and violence from
~ Jonathan Swift
music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
~ A.P.
Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.
~ Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
I try not to pay attention to all the hype.
~ O. J. Mayo
Whether I am performing for an elite crowd or a crowd of 20,000 people - the moment someone asks for 'Agneepath,' and I respond 'Agneepath' chahiye?' the noise in the crowd, shows that this song has become huge.
~ Sonu Nigam