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Quotes About Noise

But just like a real mum with a real kid, the noise coming from the toy didn't seem to bother her. Kids are like farts in that way. They never seem to bother the owner as much as they bother everyone else.
~ Karl Pilkington
He wanted to be deafened by the thunder of her engines, he needed to be drained of every thought by the cold, the noise, the equal amounts of boredom and adrenalin. He had believed once that he would be formed by the architecture of war, but now he realized, he had been erased by it.
~ Kate Atkinson
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
~ Chinua Achebe
A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.
~ Anuj
Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
~ Ronald Knox
We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.
~ Mother Mary Francis
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.
~ Sayyid Qutb
It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
~ Thomas Beecham
Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
~ Paul Hindemith
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
~ Freddie Mercury
I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
~ George Gershwin
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
~ Robert Fripp
If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.
~ Merzbow
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
~ Thomas Beecham
Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise
~ Derrick May
Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud!
~ CM Punk
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
~ Rumi
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
~ Lou Reed
Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.
~ Thomas Beecham
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
~ John Lahr