Quotes About Sound

The voice of the heart is much stronger than all the other sounds and words spoken without feelings

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds--the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.

schwa : The faint vowel sound in many unstressed syllables in the English language. It is signified by the pronunciation uh and represented by the symbol upside down e. For example, the e in overlook , the a in forgettable , and the o in run-of-the-mill . It is the most common vowel sound in the English language.

Lik the tree falling in the forest, says Ira. Huh? You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it really make a sound? Howie considers this. Is it a pine forest, or oak? What's the difference? Oak is a much denser wood; it's more likely to be heard by someone on the freeway next to the forest where no one is.

A scent, a sound, an errant shadow too minor to register consciously might be enough to make a well-trained scythe's neck hairs bristle.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.

Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean.

so all you can hear is just general leaves?

In the end, he said he judged the Bible to be a sound book. Nevertheless

Isn't God the one who urges us to Make a joyful noise unto the Lord? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful sound on earth is laughter... I've seen folks quote verses like Rejoice in the Lord always while their faces look like they just buried a rich uncle who willed everything to his pregnant guinea pig. Something is missing.

The sound of his yearning had no melodic line.

I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

I actually don't listen to CDs very often. I listen to the radio or if I do listen to a CD, it'll be a mix.

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

I think anyone who knows the audio process knows what mixing and mastering is.

I don't feel like I sound like anybody from Houston. I don't really feel like I have that Houston flow, that Houston sound. I feel like it's a mixture of all the things I've listened to growing up, or even my mom, in a way. I feel like I have my own style.

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Music, I feel like, affects people's moods.