Quotes About Sound

He who possesses a reasonable, sound theoretical equipment will perceive correctly, however neurotic or wicked he may be personally; he who lacks it or possesses an unsound one, will perceive incorrectly, however pure of neurotic tensions or compulsions he may be.

I pointed to the canvas where the rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.

Geceleyin uyand???nda, kulübenin d???nda aÄŸaçlar?n aras?nda esen rüzgâr?, gölün k?y?ya çarpan dalgalar?n? duydu, sonra yeniden uyudu. Sabahleyin sert sert esiyordu rüzgâr, dalgalar k?y?ya vuruyordu, uzun süre uyan?k kald?, sonra da gönlünün k?r?lm?? olduÄŸunu hat?rlad?.

The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew. The battery fired twice and the air came each time like a blow and shook the window and made the front of my pajamas flap. I could see the guns but they were evidently firing directly over us. It was a nuisance to have them there but it was a comfort that they were no bigger.

When a great tree came down, the report could be heard for miles, a shifting crescendo of rustling and snapping as the trunk yanked away the limbs around it, culminating finally in a muffled thud like a sledgehammer striking moss.

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling. (The Wide Net)

There was a deep boom, like the rolling in of an ocean wave. The hearse door had been slammed shut.

Should you want to listen to Variations, try hearing it from a good-condition original 1978 vinyl pressing. Because the sides are relatively short, the sound quality is amazing.

Music, the mosaic of the air

In both parties there are fools at one end and crackpots at the other,' he said, 'but the great body in the middle is sound and wise.'70

Sergeyich struck a match - and the sound of it also blended into the silence, becoming its property, an integral part of it, a note in its endless music.

Roach stepped confidently and willingly, ignoring the impenetrable darkness, and her horseshoes rang brightly against the floor.

We'll do a bit of reconnaissance. If it's safe, I'll make a call like a sparrow hawk.' 'Like a sparrow hawk?' said Munro Bruys, anxiously moving his chin. 'Since when did you know anything about mimicking bird calls, Zoltan?' 'That's the whole point. If you hear a strange, unrecognisable sound, you'll know it's me.

See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles.

You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it.

When I get my music mixed, I'm actually in the studio with the engineer, every project I've ever put out. So it's supposed to always say mixed by whatever engineer I use and Dolph.

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.

We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good... Meals on Wheels sounds great.

Now, what happens whenever there's a loud sound is that it startles us, right? And we arrest what we're doing, and we try to localize that sound because that sound could be a threat. That's something that's hard-wired in our bodies.

Ears are made not for hearing but for listening. Listening is an active skill, whereas hearing is passive. Listening is something that we have to work at - it's a relationship with sound. And yet, it's a skill that none of us are taught.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.