Quotes About Sounds

Empezó a ahogarse de miedo y claustrofobia, como le ocurría en la infancia, cuando se escondía en su improvisada carpa para escapar de los inmensos peligros del mundo, de la contundente presencia de los humanos, de los olores opresivos y los sonidos atronadores.

With guitar, I'd always mixed more sounds that occur in hip-hop, or occur on Crystal Method records, or occur at the zoo - so I've never been sort of tethered or have limited myself to the traditional rock n' roll vocabulary.

Drake is a man of the art, so he appreciates the new sounds and new music. He's always in tune with the music and the story behind it.

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

I think that first and foremost, a lot of turntable artists end up using really the same sounds over and over, and they really get recycled.

'Twenty Thousand Hertz' investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop.

I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.

The taste of him exploded inside her mouth, filling her senses with an intoxicating warmth and aroma that had nothing to do with the amount of brandy he had consumed. He made sounds-rough, greedy, indistinct sounds that vibrated through her tissues, his lips and teeth and tongue consuming her with his passion.

An Elf-Woman went by him, seated in a chair that moved along by itself, humming as it went. An Elf-Man walked by the other way, talking into a—a far-speak, but one that had no leash fastening it to the wall. Two Elf-Women each carried huge bunches of giant, fiercely colored Elvish flowers. And all the time the air twittered and beeped and hissed and buzzed.

Those Amazing Musical Instruments! Your Guide to the Orchestra Through Sounds and Stories.

For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'

Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.

I'm into sounds, man.

There's certain little sounds that I just like to hear.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.