Quotes About Sound

I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

Sunrise swept out to sea, a sea of her own tears. "Hey," Jacaranda said, acting as though it were "only a movie," a sound in her voice of carefree girlish abandon

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

In many acoustical applications, sound is considered as falling in eight octave bands, with center frequencies of 63; 125; 250; 500; 1,000; 2,000; 4,000; and 8,000 Hz. In some cases, sound is considered in terms of 1/3-octave bands, with center frequencies falling at 31.5; 50; 63; 80; 100; 125; 160; 200; 250; 315; 400; 500; 630; 800; 1,000; 1,250; 1,600; 2,000; 2,500; 3,150; 4,000; 5,000; 6,300; 8,000; and 10,000 Hz.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

How many instruments should one to expect to HEAR in a 'rubber- band'?

that calm face. Nor could he shut out the sound of those words, 'I am ready, doctor. Just lay me down easy. Anywhere. I am ready.' Ready for death? This

Usually plot is to fiction what form is to poetry. It lifts and fills the rambling language and presses it down into a single shape and sound. (85)

Just like your daddy taught you to make it," he said. His big belly laugh was the sweetest sound in the world. She would have made a deal with the devil himself in exchange for hearing that sound every day.

They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches. A delicate silvery sound was falling constantly to earth. It was wonderful to awaken amidst it, wonderful to fall asleep to this mysterious and melancholy whispering.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Hemos imaginado el mundo. ¿Qué otra cosa puede imaginarse si no es la propia muerte? El sonido de una campana y todo ha terminado.

How is it?" Not like Father used to make. 'Perfect.' Soon, very soon, my lie became the truth. Martinis are like that, especially when shared with someone whose name you have whispered to yourself just for the magic of its sound.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

A fart is just your arse applauding.

The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respect.

A quanto pare, i cristalli di neve con le loro forme uniche ostacolano la propagazione del suono e portano la quiete ovunque. Ma io la sento lo stesso... Quella voce che grida di solitudine in mezzo alla bufera.

on sound] It's just the one most all-embracing, forgiving, understanding thing there is. Just in the full abstraction of it, it doesn't ask any questions and you don't have to explain yourself. And it's the one world where...that can cover all the ... emotional levels of you. At least, I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw.

With a bad reed, my oboe could be a beastly instrument honking and squeaking as if it had a mind of its own. When my reeds were working, though, I learned that making a sound spoke my emotions more directly than my own voice.

Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Each player should make every effort to bring a variety of the best-sounding gear he can, because it will not only make the recording sound better, but will also make the music a lot more interesting.