Quotes About Sound

Words give sound to the beauty of Life.

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense

That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

I can tell you that tonight in Des Moines, Iowa, my home town, people all across the city will be putting a hand to their ears and saying "What is that sound?", and it will be the sound of Mr De Vito, my High School Careers Officer, spinning in his grave.

If there's one thing I never mistook about it's the sound of a whiskey bottle lid being screwed off. There ain't nothing else in the world sounds like it.

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings, Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

SAY IT. Go ahead, stand before the mirror, look at your mouth, and say it. Blue. See how you pucker up, your lips opening with the consonants into a kiss, and then that final exhalation of vowels? Blue. The word looks like what it is, a syllable blown out into the air, and with the sound and the sight of saying it as one.

I could hear the pop of bed linen snapping in the wind.

The wind spoke. The water sang. All sound had purpose. When an Anishinaabe approached the wigwam of another, he respectfully made noise to announce his coming. Thunder, therefore, was the respectful way of the storm in announcing its approach. Spirit and purpose in all things. For all creation, respect.

El sonido más solitario del mundo es el que producen otras personas haciendo el amor.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

Walter Murch, the sound editor and film director, said, "Music was the main poetic metaphor for that which could not be preserved

we now think of the sound of recordings when we think of a song or piece of music, and the live performance of that same piece is now considered an interpretation of the recorded version. What was originally a simulation of a performance—the recording—has supplanted performances, and performances are now considered the simulation.

in acoustic culture, the world, like sound, is all around you, and comes at you from all directions at once. It is multilayered and nonhierarchical; it has no center or focal point.

Danger is another thing that's more romantic to read about than the reality of blood and burns and the screams transcending age and gender and even humanity. Pain can be a sound, pure sound, and pictures can't prepare you for the smell of a man trying to stuff his intestines back into his ripped abdomen.