Quotes About Sound

I've used Fender Strats with Marshalls since forever, though since I last played London, I've switched to my YJM Seymour Duncan pickups, and I also have a Fender YJM overdrive pedal, which is fairly new.

A great deal of our work involves switching music off.

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

My experience with the Detroit Symphony has been musically very satisfying. They have a wonderful sound, which for me is one of the most important qualities in an orchestra.

Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending on what station you're entering.

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra like the London Symphony Orchestra can sound in a great concert hall.

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.

My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only respect that, but also make sense and are quality products. I think Klipsch is synonymous with quality in the sound industry, so it was a natural partnership.

I'm very interested in voice synthesis and vocoders in general.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.

For many different reasons, my number one favorite horror movie is 'Halloween II.' I love the way it's shot, and I love the way the synthesizer sounds on the score.

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

Ils et elles, poussés par leur instinct vers une nouvelle naissance, s'enfermaient, avant l'expulsion, dans des matrices chaudes et demi-obscures où, secoués par des pulsations sonores, ils perdaient les derniers fragments de préjugés et de conventions qui leur collaient encore par-ici et par-là aux articulations, au sexe ou à la cervelle.

Their footsteps sound like the soft hush of rain over the stone floors.

I've finally got a car that turns heads. Mostly because of the knocking, rattling, and backfiring.

If the breath of her voice had dribbled off the edge of a roof it would have made icicles.

A peacock was calling from the copse nearby—that unearthly shriek that sounds like a soprano being killed with a saw.

Se escucha, desde el cedé del radio, So Beautiful or So What, pero apagamos porque cualquier sonido es una agresión para nosotros en este momento.