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Quotes About Sound

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
~ John Cage
John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
~ Brian Eno
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
~ Alistair Cooke
Music is half the film.
~ Matthew Vaughn
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
~ Lou Reed
I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.
~ Tod Machover
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
~ Plato
Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.
~ Melvin Van Peebles
Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound
~ Max Picard
I can hear the music all around me.
~ Dudley Moore
My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.
~ Son Lux
In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them
~ Doug Aitken
I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.
~ Zach Condon
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
~ Sting
For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.
~ Tom Kenyon
Music, the mosaic of the air.
~ Andrew Marvell
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
~ Marlon Wayans
The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.
~ Shreya Ghoshal
Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.
~ Mickey Hart
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
~ George Lucas
You can't really imagine music without technology.
~ Brian Eno
I'm a huge electronic-music fan.
~ Joseph Kosinski
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.
~ Bryan White
People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.
~ Charlemagne Palestine