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Quotes About Sound

Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices, but because of the silence that is in it.
~ Karen Russell
i haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters.
~ Karen Russell
London. For some reason the word didn't seem to have the magic, warm, sound of home that it had always had.
~ Karen Schwabach
You thought it was a falling leaf we heard: I knew it was the Summer's gypsy feet.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
Rat-a-tat-tat." "Quack."
~ Kate Angell
Listening to the sound of the water, her sound, her lovely body glistening through the room a moment from now. There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.
~ Kate Millett
There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.
~ Kate Mosse
Music is a personal response to vibration.
~ Kate Mosse
The sound of the bell reverberated on a breeze brittle with the promise of snow, skittering among the city's chimneys and across frost-kissed slate roofs.
~ Katherine Kurtz
So very many times over the next three years i heard her laughter - no silver bells or sweet rippling sounds was her laughter, but like a five-year-old's bellow of delight, a cross between a puppy's yelp, a motor-bike and a bicycle pump.
~ Fynn
Owing to the combinations of sequences of sounds, there arose simultaneously in the presence of beings different sorts of impulses evoking various contradictory sensations, which in their turn gave rise to unusual experiencings and reflex movements not proper to them.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
We are the many We bear luminous wounds We bear the possibility of love; also its real sweetness Its sound
~ Göran Sonnevi
Dancing was a kind of surrender to feeling, to sound, to the present" -Anya
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Her voice sounds like a firefly looks on a summer night.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Suddenly the Doctor heard the greatest sound in the universe, more delightful than the dawn chorus, more lovely than the laughter of children, more sweet than the mountain stream. It was the wheezing, groaning sound of the relative dimensional stabiliser of a Type 40 TARDIS in materialisation mode.
~ Gareth Roberts
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.
~ Garth Stein
this is a good rule of thumb: if you can't hear the congregation, you are probably too loud
~ Brian A. Wren
if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that.
~ Brian Andreas
When you speak to someone, your vocal cords start a compression wave in the air that spreads out from your mouth until those compressions and rarefactions reach the listener's ear. There, they vibrate the hair-like structures in the ear, producing the sensation of hearing. But the link between you and the listener is the longitudinal waves that pass through the air.
~ Brian Clegg
I take sounds and change them into words.
~ Brian Eno
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
~ Brian Eno
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
~ Brian Eno