Quotes About Sounds

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people are going to dig it, man. And it rocks hard.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

I always like earthy, authentic sounds.

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds.

I can hear only the sounds of love all around me. I love all of the beauty—all of the things I can feel and see.

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings.

Tal vez, piensa Risa, haya un modo de hacer que esta vida funcione. O tal vez no lo haya. Pero, en aquel momento, no hay nada más maravilloso que perderse en los sonidos de la música. Ya se le había olvidado lo delicioso que resultaba.

The time of the year has come when on warm summer days Each flower spreads its scent like a censer of gold The sounds and fragrances in harmony enfold The melancholic languor of the evening haze

Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent / Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité, / Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté, / Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.

The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios … We were all in it together.

I missed the country sounds on the radio. I missed the Deana Carters and the old Faith Hill songs that are more richly country and not so highly pop. So I really wanted that to be on my first album.

In the event of beauty, a non-self part of my inner space seems to resonate in the colors on the wall, in the sounds pouring into my ears. Hugely amplified, might this resonance actually kill me? "A beautiful way to die" – to be destroyed by vibrations that removed myself from myself.

The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch'd with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treasons, Strategems, and Spoils, The Motions of his Mind are dull as Night, And his Affections dark as Erebus: Let no such Man be trusted.17 Copying a passage

and the bellowing, disembodied "Ho, ho, ho" of the store Santa, still unseen from their vantage point, which never failed to startle the Fangs. Caleb found himself uttering sounds in groups of three, "Har, har, har," and "Hee, hee, hee," and "Hey, hey, hey," and "How, how, how," until Camille shushed him.

Once Dan told me he wished he could make art that was like a Kinks song. (A lot of artists listen to music while they work, and many think, Why can't I make art that looks as intense as the sounds I'm hearing? I don't have an answer.)

If you talked to the landsmen face to face they seemed capable of reason, but put them in charge of things, of objects and language and sounds and they became idiots.

For a pair of eyes and a pair of ears to fix images and sounds in the temporal order in which they happen is no easy task; their memory enjoys making fun of the tyranny of time.