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Quotes About Sound

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
~ Mark Twain
Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
~ Phyllis Diller
We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.
~ Eugene Ormandy
I had a Velcro wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.
~ Eugene Ormandy
More basses, because you are so far away.
~ Eugene Ormandy
It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?
~ Jordin Sparks
It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.
~ Kid Koala
What we've got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
~ Stephen King, The Waste Lands
Fine, I'll touch you, briefly, but only because you sound like you need the praise that your body's hot, and I'm totally selfless like that.
~ Unknown
Sound will be the medicine of the future.
~ Edgar Cayce
Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
~ Albert Einstein
The medicine of the future will be music and sound.
~ Edgar Cayce
Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
~ John Cage
Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.
~ Dr. Dre
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
~ Bill Cosby
The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
~ Mark Twain
I'll turn my back and walk away, away from the pain. Scream it loud, drown it out by the sound of the rain. Listen up, I've had enough all this waiting. I need you more right now than I ever did!
~ Unknown
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hearing is more Powerful than sight. If music is the food of Love, play on! This is the power of hearing and it's effect upon the heart.
~ Unknown
For the age of the voice is over and we in the age of the written mark. The word on stone, the word on parchment, the word on cloth, the word that is even greater than the glyph, for the word provoke a sound in the mouth.
~ Marlon James
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
~ Martha Gellhorn