Quotes About Sound

I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

I love doing club shows. I love that tight sound.

She was halfway up the stairs, the flashlight beam bobbing on the steps in front of her, when she heard a small sound. Mice. Please let it be mice. A funny thing to wish, considering how much she hated mice.

It's the place you would go if you wanted to buy a stereo system for under thirty-five dollars and didn't care if it sounded like the band was playing in a mailbox under water in a distant lake.

Viennese physicist Ernst Mach, for whom is named the speed of sound

polysemy, and it is very common. Sound is another polysemic word.

borborygmi.

It is a strange, nonintuitive fact of existence that photons of light have no color, sound waves no sound, olfactory molecules no odors.

Our ears are built for a quiet world. Evolution did not foresee that one day humans would insert plastic buds in their ears and subject their eardrums to a hundred decibels of melodic roar across a span of millimeters.

New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the sound that comes out the other end doesn't make you want to kill yourself--you're not drunk enough.

The Harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

You come out; it is still dark. The door creaks, or perhaps you sneeze, or the snow crunches under your foot, and hares start up from the far cabbage patch and leap away, leaving the snow criss-crossed with tracks. In the distance dogs begin to howl and it takes a long time before the quieten down. The cocks have finished their crowing and have nothing left to say. Then dawn breaks.

The wood echoed to the hoarse ringing of other saws; somewhere, very far away, a nightingale was trying out its voice, and at longer intervals a blackbird whistled as if blowing dust out of a flute. Even the engine steam rose into the sky warbling like milk boiling up on a nursery alchohol stove.

D?? kap? üstüne ç?plak bir omza konan öpücük sesiyle kapand?.

The most common trigger, worldwide, that tripped an angry mob into violence was the sound of breaking glass.

Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of a sheep inland or the barking of a dog in the town was distinctly heard, and the band on the pier, with its lively French air, was like a dischord in the great harmony of nature's silence. A little after midnight came a strange sound from over the sea, and high overhead the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming.

That was the clock striking half-past one o'clock!" said Drawlight suddenly. "How lonely it sounds! Ugh! All the horrid things one reads of in novels always happen just as the church bell tolls or the clock strikes some hour or other in a dark house!

But the sound that came out of his mouth was no sound at all; it was the emptied skin of sound without flesh or bones.

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

The black instrument on the hall table trilled its hysterical note over and over, like a nervous bird.

I cannot feel that my appreciation of Milton leads anywhere outside of the mazes of sound.