Quotes About Sound

I remember one of my favorite all-time records was by Edwin Starr: 'Stop Her on Sight.'

The way it works for me is my sight and sound senses are combined. Every sound I associate with a color and every color I associate with a sound... The way I see things is constant streamers across the room, bouncing off from every touch and every sound. Over the years, I've learned what color palates I love most.

When gamers look at games not as overall experiences but as chimeric potpourris of sight and sound, we take too mechanical a perspective and ignore what really makes them special.

I don't know what I did to my main bass. I've poured makeup into it, I've bashed it around - and we've gone in the back and cleaned it up... It sounds amazing and one of a kind at this point, but it picks up a really decent radio signal if you're anywhere near an antenna.

The track 'Open Eye Signal,' when you hear that choir sound come in, that's actually me singing but sped up and with huge reverb and overlayered harmonies.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.

People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise.

The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.

Ever since I can remember, I hated silence. I wanted it filled with guitars and melodies to sing all day.

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.

My father, who was a good deal older than my mother, had basically grown up with silent films; sound didn't arrive until he was 30 years old. So he took me to see silent pictures at MoMA when I was 5 or 6 years old.

'The Sound of Silk' will serve as a lens for larger questions about cultural identity in a global society and the potential for individuals to act as catalysts for change.

The body's like a huge ear. It's as simple as that.

Music makes or breaks an atmosphere. It helps to create the mood and also is a very important aural cue; simply shut off the music when you want people to leave.

There is nothing more wonderful than the male voice. It is strong and deep and rich.

He stared at me. His breathing made that wheezing sound that fat people sometimes make.

up. A singsong voice said, "At the sound of the tone, General Telephone time will be twelve o'clock, exactly." I burst out laughing and Althea looked at me.

It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.