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Quotes About Sounds

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
~ Herb Alpert
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
~ Bram Stoker
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony
~ William Shakespeare
Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
~ Robert Schumann
I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.
~ Flume
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
~ Dexter Gordon
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
~ Edgar Wilson Nye
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
~ John Philip Sousa
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.
~ Miles Davis
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
~ Alexander Pope
For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
~ John Cage
My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.
~ Chanel Iman
What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
~ Dave Grohl
What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
~ Ernest Klein
All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away from that. Take it or leave it.
~ Liam Howlett
Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
~ Sampha
I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
~ Ben Katchor
The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.
~ Cheo Hodari Coker
The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.
~ Gelsey Kirkland
To be able to greet the sun with the sounds from all of Nature is a great blessing, and it helps us to remember Who is the real provider of all of our benefits.
~ Thomas Yellowtail
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."
~ Anne Waldman
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
~ George Crumb
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.
~ Roscoe Mitchell