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Quotes About Sound

The act of driving the car made him feel he was a powerful being who could conquer the world. Up over hills, fast down on the other side. It was like playing god and commanding everything within hearing to awaken and listen to him. The people sleeping in the white farmhouses were at the mercy of the sound of his engine roaring past in the night.
~ Ann Petry
A dove's call echoed like a bell as her feet drummed on the road.
~ Ann Turner
An audible 'click' sounded as the milkman and I ran by a bush and this was a bush I'd run by lots of times without clicks coming out of it.
~ Anna Burns
The creature laughed with a sound like water splashing softly on pebbles.
~ Anna Elizabeth Bennett
Pour le moment, elle entendait encore le son de sa voix, mais... Jusqu'à quand?
~ Anna Gavalda
Town of the Dragon Vein If you wake up too early listen for it. A sort of inverted whistling the sound of sound. Being withdrawn after all where? Does all the sound in the world. Come from day after day? From mountains but. They have to give it back. At night just. As your nightly dreams. Are taps. Open reversely. In. To. Time.
~ Anne Carson
Forró volt a hang, mint egy szín belseje.
~ Anne Carson
A foghorn sounding through fog makes the fog seem to be everything.
~ Anne Carson
He dribbled noise.
~ Anne Enright
Yet some of the business of hearing is still frankly unfathomable. Although we know, for instance, that the brain procesess acoustic vibrations into neural signs, some of our phenomenal auditory talents, like translating the physical properties of sound into the abstract realm of meaning, remain a profound mystery, all the more since this occurs within 150 milliseconds after the beginning of the sound.
~ Anne Karpf
Hearing is one of the first senses to develop in a foetus-the ear has already begun to be formed in an eight-week-old foetus, and three months later is structurally complete. When we go to sleep, our perception of sound is the last sense to close off, and when we awake the first to start up again. And hearing, it's claimed, is the last sense to die at the end of life.
~ Anne Karpf
The room was bright and white and still and silent, but soundless sound roared and howled in it.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
~ Anne Sexton
God has a brown voice, soft and full as beer.
~ Anne Sexton
Annie, Annie you sang and I knew you drove a pure gold car and put diamonds in you coke for the crunchy sound, the adorable sound and the moon too was in your portfolio
~ Anne Sexton
Sound awareness is especially important, for although we easily close our mouth and eyes to what we don't want to take in, we can't really close our ears. Nature did not give us earlids. Our ears remain open and working even when we sleep. STEVEN HALPERN
~ Anodea Judith
My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that there is profit in it.
~ Julian Treasure
Radio 3 shows such as 'Between the Ears' also make the kind of podcasts that draw the most from your noise-cancelling headphones. The programme commissions ideas that make adventurous use of sound.
~ David Hepworth
You know, as I'm progressing with my sound, I just realize when you got a simple sound with crazy percussion in the beats, it makes it. It kinda shapes my sound when it comes to what makes a Tay Keith beat.
~ Tay Keith
I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.
~ Jeremy Camp
My music, I think, takes elements from a lot of different genres, progressive, electro but is still quite clearly defined as my sound.
~ Hardwell
My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
~ Stan Getz
The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.
~ Joshua Bell
We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.
~ Jon Brion