Quotes About Sound

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.

Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.

My dad was very, very invested in image. He felt that as a black person, the thing you could control was how did you look, how did you dress, how did you sound, how did you smell, how did you act. All of that stuff that you could control would absolutely have a strong impact on your access.

My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

I love the sound of '70s glam records. I love that snare sound. The recordings I like, it's all based on if the snare sounds good. The drums have to sound great.

Tout bruit passager est marqué d'hallucination, puisqu'il ne laisse pas de traces, et tout son peut retentir dans l'éternité d'un passé composé de l'écoute.

La présence d'une voix humaine structure l'espace qui la contient.

Vaste est la mer de l'ouïe autour du radeau de la vision.

What can we do now? How many words are left with Ds in it? Not many, I bet. Probably al the best ones have already been ruined.' .. .. 'And if I ever find my dad, what will he be? Just a sound. A sound without any meaning.' p 208

but that German sounds like old clergymen vomiting.

Es expresivo y cambiante el lenguaje de las campanas; su vibración es capaz de acentos hondos y graves y livianos y agudos y sombríos. Nunca las campanas dicen lo mismo. Y nunca lo que dicen lo dicen de la misma manera.

The doorbell made a severe, functional buzzing sound like a dentist's drill sliding off recalcitrant enamel.

Things known to start the dog barking include, but are not limited to: sunrise, sunset, darkness, rain, helicopters, radios, clouds, children's laughter, anyone entering any of the back yards adjoining the yard where my neighbor has penned his dog, garbage collectors, birds, squirrels, and air.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world.

What he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, over-powering, window-rattling din to engulf, once and for all, the pain, the futility, the vanity of words. Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word!

Since its beginnings, Western music is bound, by an insurmountable convention, to the need to express subjectivity. It stands against the harsh sound of the outside world just as the sensitive soul stands against the insensibility of the universe.

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

I really love things with melody.

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.