Quotes About Sound

Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.

Music isn't for the eyes, it's for the ears

There are notes between notes, you know.