Quotes About Sound

The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

I love the voice - it's the most perfect instrument ever heard. It's God given.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

My voice cut into the silence. The words hung there, searing themselves on the little room long after the sound had died away.

And all she heard was the scream, the screaming that went on and on, the sound of the end of the word, the worst sound you ever heard, and she realized it was her it was her it was the sound of her own voice.

rubber-soled shoes squeaking on the shiny Marmoleum.

At his apartment she peed with the bathroom door open. It sounded like a visiting horse was relieving itself.

Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.

If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings.

The only sounds were footsteps and dogs barking along the road and faintly a helicopter from the reservoirs.

The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes...Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important...Don't mumble or hesitate. Speak...in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear.

Orpah and Ruth; who will represent to us two sorts of professors of religion: Orpah, that sort that indeed make a fair profession, and seem to set out well, but dure but for a while, and then turn back; Ruth, that sort that are sound and sincere, and therefore are steadfast and persevering in the way that they have set out in.

A painter paints pictures on canvas, but a musician paints pictures on silence.

attacked the glass. A cracking sound made me jump back. The pane was intact, but I could swear I heard the glass hum. Robin behind me now. I tried again, and once more the monster lunged. Kept lunging.

The thunder growled loud enough to wake the storm.

In actual pieces of music, the pitches of a chord may be duplicated and heard in many different octaves depending on the number and type of instruments playing.

Unfortunately, that advice, while sound, is difficult to follow; how difficult depends on not just our attitude, but also our age.

It was higher and shriller than Holly's, so we knew that it was Kipps.

I'm not a fan of country music, but there's no better music to drive to. Turn the right song up loud enough on the Porsche's sound system and it will swallow you whole. The past is prelude and the future is a black hole, but right now, hurtling north across state lines for no particular reason, I have to say, it feels pretty good to be me.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

They don't talk the same language as us. I don't mean that they don't speak English, but that their minds are different. They're like animals, and because I hate the sight and sound of them, and because you're a Britisher, I'm telling you to get out now while the going's good.

In a trio I had to provide a lot more of the sound, and I found that difficult because I didn't really enjoy having to play so much. My technique altered quite a lot in that I started playing a lot more bar chords and hitting open strings to provide a kind of drone for my lead work.

Music is what life sounds like.

Hermann von Helmholtz was the first to appreciate that the basilar membrane's operation is essentially the inverse of a piano's. The piano synthesizes a complex sound by combining the pure tones produced by numerous vibrating strings; the cochlea deconstructs a complex sound by isolating each component tone at a discrete segment of the basilar membrane.