Quotes About Sound

Ive worked outside football. I knew every day what I had. I loved going into football grounds, smelling it, seeing it, hearing it. Thats what grabbed me. Thats what I miss.

The Melvins are grunge.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.

I'm from the Caribbean, and I love the dance hall sound.

My first bit of gear was a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I used to hammer the hell out of that.

live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things they say are not heard, are swallowed in the overall

There is no sight moves me more than the jagged Olympics floating above the islands and inlets of Puget Sound.

Nobody could see the ghost in his box, but everybody could hear him.

The dragon roared. Terrible sound, that. Made my testicles shrink.

So, what do I call you? I asked. Whomp. Whomp? Your given name? It's the sound people make when I hit them in the chest.

As I drew breath, I heard bone snap—a horrible sound, but a joyful one because the bone was not mine.

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

We read, indeed, that the walls of Jericho fell down before the sound of trumpets,39 but we nowhere hear that those trumpets were hoarse and feeble. Doubtless they were trumpets that gave forth clear ringing tones, and sent a mighty vibration through brick and mortar. But the oratory of the Rev. Amos resembled rather a Belgian railway-horn, which shows praiseworthy intentions inadequately fulfilled.

I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

When they invented the mandolin, it was as if they were trying to come up with the least efficient means of extracting noise from a piece of wood.

Recording studios are interesting; a lot of people say - and I agree - that you should have a lot of wood in a recording studio. It gets a kind of a sweeter sound.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

My favourite guitar was - I can't remember if it was '50s or '60s - a pale wood Telecaster, and it made me a better player. It was beautiful, so easy to play.