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Quotes About Sound

You will never hear a bird cry or a sheep bleat or a weasel scream.
~ John Buchan
A child's laughter is the greatest sound in the world. A child's laughter in a cornfield is the creepiest sound in the world. --
~ Unknown
The music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer tone, she thought, than the old one. She decided that tone was most important and that she could conceal the cabinet behind a sofa. But as soon as she had made her peace with the radio, the interference began.
~ John Cheever
When he was young, brooks had seemed to speak to him in the tongues of men and angels. Now that he was an old man who spoke five or six languages - all of them poorly - the sound of water seemed to be the language of his nativity, some tongue he had spoken before his birth. Soft and loud, high and low, the sound of water reminded him of eavesdropping in some other room than where the party was.
~ John Cheever
Beware you do not damage, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.
~ John Cheever
The love is a sound we can not hear, yet, within our hearts, it's as loud as thunder. It's a word we can not speak, although, it is branded upon our very souls.
~ Unknown
I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.
~ Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick
Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
The bell tolling not for us, it's time for bluebells.
~ Lara Biyuts
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
~ Donald Fagen
You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.
~ James Wan
Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.
~ Larry Fessenden
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
~ Mason Cooley
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
~ Plato
Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
~ Isaac Hanson
I don't want to make music only for Latinos. The idea is always to make a global sound.
~ J Balvin
Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see what effect it has, without any aforethought.
~ Jon Hopkins
I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.
~ Flume
There's something in glitchy music that I like to get lost in.
~ Arca
I've been called 'the father of loud.'
~ Dick Dale
We honestly cannot hear sometimes because the audiences are so loud.
~ Kevin Jonas
I've got quite a loud voice.
~ Lewis Capaldi
I don't know a high C from a low C.
~ Brett Somers
Moog embodies a sound luxury like no other.
~ Mike Dean