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Quotes About Aural

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.
~ Mika
Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close.
~ Peter Landesman
There must be a little memory bank, a library or storage unit in my brain, that just tucks away memories of other people. I suck in as much of life as I can. I don't do it deliberately - I'm just curious. Dangerously so. I collect visual and aural patterns, physical human patterns, from experience.
~ Debra Lawrance
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
~ Alistair Cooke
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
~ Alistair Cooke
Music, the mosaic of the air.
~ Andrew Marvell
after over a century of such noise, the windy silence of the outdoors was strange, a kind of aural hollowness.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
When we see Rey, we want to hear Rey's theme, and when the Force is referred to or felt, we want to hear the Force theme, and so on. We hope that these references make sense to the fans and make the aural connections that we want them to have.
~ John Williams
I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.
~ Rhianna Pratchett
Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.
~ Wesley Morris
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
~ Margaret Atwood
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
~ Brian Eno
My hearing is usually O.K.
~ Lemmy
For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.
~ Linda Perry
I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.
~ Mike Nichols
Music makes or breaks an atmosphere. It helps to create the mood and also is a very important aural cue; simply shut off the music when you want people to leave.
~ Lisa Vanderpump
I don't even know that I could have located it on a map.' There was another silence, this one more awkward than the last. Daniel decided it was time to address the aural chasm and said, 'Well.' Which, as usual, bought him enough time to think of something marginally more intelligent to say: 'I have peppermints in my office.
~ Julia Quinn
A good exercise for identifying intervals is to sing them. Sing one note, any note, and then try to sing, let's say, a perfect fourth above it.
~ Skip Morris
Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
~ Leila Josefowicz
And just to complicate matters, autistic people seem to get visual cues mixed up with aural cues. Normally when a person is listening, the visual cortex gets turned down. But a 2012 fMRI study found that when autistics were listening to sound cues, their visual cortices remained more active than neurotypicals'. If that's the case, then even while they're straining to process aural cues, they're being distracted and confused by visual cues.
~ Temple Grandin
I am definitely of the method-acting school. Everything to me is about sound. I don't dress up in period costumes or anything like that. I'm very aural. When I'm working, I try to soak up the sounds of an era.
~ Tom Reiss
There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it.
~ Glen Duncan
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.
~ Will Self
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
~ Leo Ornstein