Quotes About Sound

The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.

People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The great thing about Adele is if you put her on top volume, you actually sound like her while you're singing.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

I'd really like to be able to whistle with two fingers. Is this a biological thing? Is it to do with the teeth? Who teaches people to do this? How do I learn?

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

My amp setup is the same that Ive had for years. Its a Fender Princeton side-by-side with a Fender Tweed Deluxe. Thats my main sound. And then behind that I have a Leslie that is set on slow. Its kind of on all the time, just for some depth.

Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

It's like an electroacoustic, surround-sound cello gamba. It embodies everything that fascinates me the most - acoustics, playing instruments, digital processing, movement of sound. Somehow, everything is combined in Ómar.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.