“There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.”

“Lying in my tent
I can hear your cry
Echoing round the mountainside
You sound lonely”

“Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard”

“Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.”

“Bent double like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.”

“Everything smelled of sheep. The dandelions were suddenly more sheep than flower, each petal reflecting wool and the sound of a bell ringing off the yellow. But the thing that smelled the most like sheep, was the sun itself. When the sun went behind a cloud, the smell of sheep decreased, like standing on some old guy's hearing aid, and when the sun came back again, the smell of the sheep was loud, like a clap of thunder inside a cup of coffee.”

“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”

“Next came the sort of kiss that banished the world to distant background noise and seemed to last a month.”

“At once, far off… begins a rumbling, droning noise -- like a thousand distant flying machines -- like the sound of an armada of mechanical birds -- a noise reminiscent of implacable, massive stage machinery in a masque or pageant that is several streets away. It is not one sound but many sounds combined. This is the sound of Prospero's magic.”

“I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.”