Quotes About Sound

It sounds loud, but what you're hearing is the turbo pumps driving at max performance. Once you're going past the speed of sound it's really what is on the vehicle that you're hearing.

Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band.

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

I'm versatile with my sound. I can switch it up a lot.

I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.

I like Telecasters because they are so versatile.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.

There is nothing, no sound, and we are thinking very unhappy thoughts as we kneel down and perform our watery pantomime one more time.

Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years. When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind." "That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.

I pressed the ignition button and the engine came to life. Our cars have special mufflers to deaden the exhaust sound but there's nothing you can do about a starter. Carter

loved the sound of the rain on the metal roof

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

and the wind-chime laugh that

What is it about people casually eating apples that's so infuriating? There's nothing inherently aggravating about someone eating grapes or an orange, but an apple?

I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away.

The louder the babies screamed, the brighter the lights.

with enough rock in your system, you could hear every noise in the universe.

She laughed again. It sounded like a string of empty metal cans clattering in the wind.

Matt smirked. "Well, it is interesting because lots of poems have mathematical imagery or structure. Concrete triangular poems and syllabic verse, for example. Did you know that we subconsciously track the sound properties in poetry?

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.