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Quotes About Sound

It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay. And as I lay and tossed about, the voice in my ears seemed more distinct, and I began to understand the words he had muttered. They came to me slowly as if I had forgotten them, and at last I could make some sense out of the sounds. It was this: "Have you found the Yellow Sign?" "Have you found the Yellow Sign?" "Have you found the Yellow Sign?
~ Robert W. Chambers
I'd probably want some good compressors, like a couple of Avalons or a couple of the Urei LA-3A's, and perhaps a Pultec EQ.
~ Robert Wolff
Mac DSP EQ and Compression, which
~ Robert Wolff
We'll either record the multitrack at 44.1k or 48k and then we mix to 88.2, which is compatible with CDs because it's a multiple of 44.1
~ Robert Wolff
SSL FXG384 Outboard Stereo Compressor—Same as in the G-Series Console; great for piano or submixed drums. Avalon AD2044 Stereo Compressor—Great on bass and guitars; difficult to recall. BSS DPR-901 Dynamic Equalizer—For vocals, it's like cheating! DBX 902 De-Esser—Quite handy, but not for lead vocals. Drawmer DS-201 Dual Gate—Great problem-solvers.
~ Robert Wolff
Spectrasonics, Universal Audio and Waves
~ Robert Wolff
Bob Clearmountain.
~ Robert Wolff
A sound by itself is a passive, not an active, thing, neither pleasant nor unpleasant. So to make it unpleasant, you have to go out and, in a sense, do something to it.
~ Robert Wright
The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?
~ Roberto Bolano
Silence is love just as your raspy voice is a bird.
~ Roberto Bolano
This was a rare treat: the wonderful sound of memory filled happiness.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
unbearable cry pierced the darkness. It was the sound of pain. The sound of birth.
~ Robin Parrish
his toenails clicking
~ Lisa Scottoline
toenails clicking
~ Lisa Scottoline
Bear's toenails clicking up
~ Lisa Scottoline
All sound arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. All thought arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. The universe arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. Suffering arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. The unbounded spaciousness of Silence, filled with the clear light of Awareness, dissolves the roots of pain and sorrow. Take refuge in Silence and know unshakable joy
~ Lord Dunsany
Her voice was husky, vibrating, slightly flat, coming in just under each note like a saucer under a cup.
~ Lorrie Moore
From somewhere a motor roared into life, then another, and still another.
~ Louis L'Amour
Only the wind made a sound to be heard, a soft soughing that seemed to whisper of the impending rain. The
~ Louis L'Amour
Let's hear the sound of the baby pianny.
~ Louisa May Alcott
What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
~ Louise Erdrich
Sounds come/ to the ear,// transformed.
~ Ronald Johnson
Somos sólo palabras, palabras que retumban en el éter. Palabras musitadas, gritadas, escupidas, palabras repetidas millones de veces o palabras apenas formuladas por bocas titubeantes. Yo no creo en el Más Allá, pero creo en las palabras. Todas las palabras que las personas hemos dicho desde el principio de los tiempos se han quedado dando vueltas por ahí, suspendidas en el magma del Universo. Esa es la eternidad: un estruendo inaudible de palabras.
~ Rosa Montero
When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.
~ Ruth Ozeki