Quotes About Sound

I heard the Watersprinkler playing his flute.

One day Ron Mael of Sparks casually asked Morgan what he thought of the recording we were making. Morgan gave it a thought and wisely said, 'You have to put more sound between the speakers', stretching his arms wide. Ron turned to me with a surprised expression on his face and said, 'Wow.' Morgan's suggestion made us widen the stereo soundscape of that mix.

It is not the sound of w shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.

Todo lo que vive lleva el sonido consigo!

Listen. You hear it? Trees. Wind. Pushing us to freedom.

Les cloches sonnent sans raison et nous aussi

SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!

It was the most aggressively furious crow Logan had ever heard; it sounded less like "hey, morning's here" and more like "DIE, BASILISK!

Then a terrifying roar split the air,

Before her eyes was the violent blue sky— nothing else. For an endless moment she looked into it. Like a great overpowering sound it destroyed everything in her mind, paralyzed her. Someone once had said to her that the sky hides the night behind it, shelters the person beneath from the horror that lies above. Unblinking, she fixed the solid emptiness, and the anguish began to move in her. At any moment the rip can occur, the edges fly back, and the giant maw will be revealed.

No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

The phrase "personal computer" is part of the language now, but when it was first used it had a deliberately audacious sound, like the phrase "personal satellite" would today.

Emotional risk also occurs when investors are drawn to bad investment choices just because they sound good, are popular, or are pushed by family or friends.

The only sound was birdsong, soon overwhelmed by the headlong buzz of two Border Patrol officers on all-terrain vehicles, zipping past me much too fast on the flat paths, their big wheels tossing up damp sand.

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.