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Quotes About Sound

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
~ Brownie McGhee
Your head is a stereo input. The density and cartilage of your ears embed certain extra characteristics into stereo sound sources. Your brain decodes that and gives you sound plus conscious directions.
~ Chris Milk
We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo.
~ Lita Ford
Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
~ Anne Dudley
When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers. Turn on the left speaker sometime and notice you're hearing it also in your right ear.
~ Woody Norris
I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!
~ Tony Visconti
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
~ Sam Raimi
The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.
~ Thomas E. Sniegoski
The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.
~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.
So little cause for carolingsOf such ecstatic soundWas written on terrestrial thingsAfar or nigh around,That I could think there trembled throughHis happy good-night airSome blessed hope, whereof he knewAnd I was unaware.
~ Thomas Hardy
The Apparition paused, and would have spoke... But then a neighbouring chanticleer awoke... —'Tis known how much dead gentlefolks eschew The appalling sound of "Cock-a-doodle-do!"
~ Thomas Ingoldsby
Violence without violation is only a noise heard by no one, the most horrendous sound in the universe.
~ Thomas Ligotti
The rain grew louder, the gutters talking to the downspouts.
~ Thomas Mullen
His voice, the very sound of rolling eyes.
~ Thomas Mullen
Well, I heard a lot of the hours struck
~ Thornton Wilder
Dawn makes a sound. If you listen closely right as the sun starts to come up, you'll hear it. It's like the echo of birth; silence, followed by a gentle push, moans, and then the sloppy deluge of life. On good days I like it because it reminds me that I am alive. On bad days it makes me feel like dust.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Dawn makes a sound. If you listen closely, right as the sun starts to come up, you'll hear it. It's like the echo of birth: silence, followed by a gentle push, followed by moans, then the sloppy deluge of new life. On good days I like it because it reminds me that I'm alive. On bad days it makes me feel like dust.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Dawn makes a sound. If you listen closely, right as the sun starts to come up, you'll hear it. It's like the echo of birth: silence, followed by a gentle push, followed by moans, then the sloppy deluge of new life.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Dawn makes a sound. If you listen closely, right as the sun starts to come up, you'll hear it. It's like the echo of birth: silence, followed by a gentle push, followed by moans, then the sloppy deluge of new life. On good days I like it because it reminds me that I'm alive. On bad days it makes me feel like dust.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories
~ Tim Brookes
As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.
~ Tim Flannery
When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future.
~ Jochen Zeitz
I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.
~ George Gershwin
In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.
~ Mickey Hart