Quotes about sound
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“My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.”

Jack Vance book The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph

The Howling Bounders (p. 56)
Short fiction, The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

“There are as many reasons to be silent as there are to speak, and as many ways to hear meaning in the sounds of silence.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Silence, Way

“[C]onstitutional silences, like silences of other kinds, aren’t just occasional gaps or omissions in an otherwise-seamless design. They’re everywhere and come in as many flavors and varieties as sounds. Ambiguity and multiplicity of meanings are in a sense manifestations of silence.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Silence, Sense

“When I first started singing the anthem, my thoughts were always to sing it in a way that my father would like it to be sung— not just the sound, but also the intention. If you sing anything with intention, it really is hard to get tired of it.”

Mark Donnelly (1960) Canadian singer

Source: Mark Donnelly: Q&A with the slimming anthem singer https://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/mark-donnelly-qa-with-the-slimming-anthem-singer/ (March 13, 2012)

Singing, Way

“Sound is defined as the result of a succession of regular and periodic vibrations. Noise is instead caused by motions that are irregular, as much in time as in intensity. 'A musical sensation,' says Helmholtz 'appears to the ear as a perfectly stable, uniform, and invariable sound.'”

Luigi Russolo (1885–1947) Electronic music pioneer and Futurist painter

But the quality of continuity that sound has with respect to noise, which seems instead fragmentary and irregular, is not an element sufficient to make a sharp distinction between sound and noise. We know that the production of sound requires not only that a body vibrate regularly but also that these vibrations persist in the auditory nerve until the following vibration has arrived, so that the periodic vibrations blend to form a continuous musical sound. At least sixteen vibrations per second are needed for this. Now, if I succeed in producing a noise with this speed. I will get a sound made up of the totality of so many noises--or better, noise whose successive repetitions will be sufficiently rapid to give a sensation of continuity like that of sound.
Source: Russolo. English trans. Barclay Brown (1986: 37).

Appearance, Time, Success, Music

“For once his years of teaching experience stood him in good stead; he was an old hand at sounding knowledgeable while dodging surprise questions from smart-breeched scholars.”

Margaret Ball (1515–1584) Lady Mayoress of Dublic and Catholic martyr

Source: Lost in Translation (1995), Chapter 8 (p. 150)

Question, Knowledge

“My virgin sense of sound was steeped
In the music of young streams;
And roses through the casement peeped,
And scented all my dreams.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

"Prelude", stanza XI; p. ix., At the Gate of the Convent (1885)

Dreams, Music, Sense

“The larger hope of a united humanity whose burdens Israel was called to carry and still is appointed to bear must be sounded. The Messianic mission of Israel is central in the teachings of the reform-Synagog. Its symbolism must expose and propose the meaning of this mission. Judaism is preparatory and prelude to the greater glory of "Kingdom come."”

Stephen Samuel Wise (1874–1949) American rabbi (1874-1949)

Free Synagogue Pulpit: Sermons and Addresses <br class="br">Source: p. 76 https://archive.org/details/freesynagoguepu00wisegoog/page/n84/mode/2up

Hope

“I just can’t do it anymore. I can’t train children to wait to be told what to do; I can’t train people to drop what they are doing when a bell sounds; I can’t persuade children to feel some justice in their class placement when there isn’t any, and I can’t persuade children to believe teachers have valuable secrets they can acquire by becoming our disciples. That isn’t true.”

John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author

Source: "I Quit, I Think" (1991)

Children, People, Teachers, Secret

“The most generous of critics, if he is to be discriminating and just, cannot, let me say again, allow that any verse which is profoundly obscure or utterly unmusical, no matter how intellectual in substance, deserves the appellation of poetry. But on a very thin thread of meaning poetry, or a very fair imitation of it, may be hung by the aid of musical sound.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: The Bridling of Pegasus (1910), "The Essentials of Great Poetry", p. 7.

Music

“[The 3 adjectives to define your sound?] Cheerful, exciting and overwhelming.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

From the interview «Carlo Prevale: il DJ che trasmette emozioni con le sue canzoni!» http://www.prevale.net/news-and-releases.html, Corriereinformazione.it <br class="br">Original: (it) [I 3 aggettivi per definire il tuo sound?] Allegro, emozionante e travolgente. <br class="br">Source: From the interview by Federico Valenti, «Carlo Prevale: il DJ che trasmette emozioni con le sue canzoni!», Corriereinformazione.it, August 22, 2010; on Prevale.net http://www.prevale.net/news-and-releases.html.

“"You must tell them that there must be a new union or there will be chaos," he [Shevardnadze] implored me. That evening, when I hosted republic leaders for dinner — a mixed group of presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers — I saw around the table and in the conversation a microcosm of the post-coup Soviet Union’s potential — and its problems. Whatever euphoria that they felt with their post-putsch independence declarations had given way to a marked degree of realism. "Independence sounds nice, but we have to live, and we have to be practical," observed the Prime Minister of Moldova, Valeriu Muravsky. That was the persistent theme that I heard from every one of the republic leaders, with the sole exception of the Georgian Prime Minister, Vissarion Gugushvili, though even he spoke of the need for economic cooperation once Georgian independence was recognized internationally.”

James Baker (1930) Former U.S. Secretary of State

The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace 1989-1992 (1995) by James Addison Baker, p. 531
1990s

Problem, Way

“When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No … don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? But it is!”

Louis De Bernières (1954) English novelist

Source: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Imagination, Lying, Madness, Night

“Deep feeling sounded in her voice. I had no doubt that the feeling was partly sincere. Still, there was something unreal about it. I suspected that she'd been playing tricks with her emotions for a long time, until none of them was quite valid.”

Ross Macdonald book The Galton Case

The Galton Case (1959)

Sincerity, Time, Feeling

“The sound of shutters going up around her mind, armored against anything short of a nuke, was very nearly audible in the room.”

John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit

Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 47, “Plea of Insanity” (p. 146)

“The sound of a code being broken is usually the same as that of somebody snapping his fingers.”

John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit

Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 45 (p. 135; chapter title)

“It sounds reasonable to me. Reasonable, but not true. Big difference.”

Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 19 (p. 251)

“[Y]ou must have a clear picture in your mind of what success would look, sound, and feel like.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 3

Success, Feeling

“To many of us, however, this is the most delectable of natural sounds. It's an hour before dawn, it's spring, this is an English woodland. All around, the dawn chorus. It's so familiar that perhaps we take it for granted.”

David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist

"The Eloquent Communicators"
The Life of Birds (1998)

Spring, Nature

“Hark, the glad sound! The Savior comes,
The Savior promised long;
Let every heart exult with joy,
And every voice be song!”

Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter

Published 1755, Hymns, "Hark, the Glad Sound", Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, p. 278

Heart, Joy

“I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

As quoted in Walker, 1997.

Sadness, Heart

“I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.”

NoViolet Bulawayo book We Need New Names

We Need New Names (2013)

“It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 461)

World

“I have not strutted my stuff yet. If I start showing off and try to look sexy, many actresses will not get a sound sleep. Till now, whatever I did was just the tip of the iceberg. The day I will show the whole iceberg, no one will stand in any competition against me.”

Yana Gupta (1979) Czech model and actress

"Yana Gupta" https://web.archive.org/web/20051224063325/http://www.bollywoodgate.com/indian-models/yana-gupta.html, Bollywoodgate.com (archived on 24 December 2005).

Sleep

“} ) } ) EVERYBODY " What people need in life is a sound of hope, don't take that from anyone. " -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

Hope, People, Life

“This is a stick-up, everybody get face-down. Ren, gag their mouths so they can't make a sound. Tie em up for the fact that I'm kickin ass”

Eazy-E (1963–1995) American rapper and producer

Source: Nobody Move, Eazy-Duz-It (1988, «Nobody Move».jooov.net http://www.jooov.net/text/144917905/Jennifer_Rush-Nobody_Move.htmls

“Grace, honour, praise, delight,
Here sojourn day and night.
Sound bodies lined
With a good mind,
Do here pursue with might
Grace, honour, praise, delight.

Here enter you, and welcome from our hearts,
All noble sparks, endowed with gallant parts.
This is the glorious place, which bravely shall
Afford wherewith to entertain you all.
Were you a thousand, here you shall not want
For anything; for what you'll ask we'll grant.
Stay here, you lively, jovial, handsome, brisk,
Gay, witty, frolic, cheerful, merry, frisk,
Spruce, jocund, courteous, furtherers of trades,
And, in a word, all worthy gentle blades.”

Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.

Night, Heart, Parting

“For those who live music with their heart, it is extremely exciting to listen to the magical and sweet melodies of sound every time.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Per chi vive la musica con il cuore, è estremamente emozionante ascoltare ogni volta le magiche e dolci melodie del suono.
Source: prevale.net

Time, Heart, Music

“Τhere is a cry deeper than all sound,
tears hidden that overflowing as waves,
a shadows language that whispering in the ear of life,
''be boundless, feel the earth recieve you as you are,
be conscious and the infinite expanse of heaven
will grow even wider.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: Song There is a cry

Cry, Feeling, Tear, Life

“How prideful sounds the phrase: "It is not nature that created a human, but he himself!””

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Nature

“Every emotion is unique, just as the sound of the consolle when it becomes a woman is fascinating.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ogni emozione è unica, così come è affascinante il suono della consolle quando diventa donna.
Source: prevale.net

“A manipulator knows how to capitalize on the strengths and weaknesses of others. They use deception to control others. To be able to avoid this trap, do not be easily lured by lures that sound very tempting before we actually test the reality.”

Titon Rahmawan

Reality

““It’s 11:15 p. m. Most people are asleep and I’m just finishing my last exercise with my 30-pound vest. I sit on the bench to have some rest. I look at myself in the mirror. After a while, I ask myself a question: “Is it really still worth it?” Unfortunately, I don’t think I can answer this question. I really can’t. I keep thinking,

“You are alone, no family, you work like a horse, there is no one waiting for you at home.” This doesn’t sound too great, I think. But then another question pops up: “Then why do you keep doing it?” I know the answer to this question without hesitation. “Because I love it.””

Jaromír Jágr (1972) Czech ice hockey winger

Home, Question, Thinking, Love

“You are in my silences like a poet in search of words, like a sound in time with my heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Sei nei miei silenzi come un poeta in cerca di parole, come un suono a tempo col mio cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Time, Search, Silence, Heart

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“Sometimes what screams the loudest in a city is what makes no sound.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

“Music is the language of the sound that composes every single emotion.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La musica è il linguaggio del suono che compone ogni singola emozione.
Source: prevale.net

Music

“Music allows to find their place in the world and the opportunity to communicate fragility, art, life, sensations and emotions that are often transmitted through the melodies of sound.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La musica permette di trovare un posto nel mondo e l'opportunità di comunicare fragilità, arte, vita, sensazioni ed emozioni che si trasmettono attraverso le melodie del suono.
Source: prevale.net

Communication, Music, Art, World

“Dance music is energy in motion that turns sound into healthy fun.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La musica dance è energia in movimento che trasforma il suono in sano divertimento.
Source: prevale.net

Music, Dance

“Music is an art form borns of inspiration and creativity; it's a set of sounds and harmonies in motion able to creating a universal language that exceed cultural and social barriers.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La musica è una forma d'arte che nasce dall'ispirazione e dalla creatività; è un insieme di suoni e armonie in movimento in grado di creare un linguaggio universale che supera le barriere culturali e sociali.
Source: prevale.net

Universe, Art, Music

“Letting yourself be carried away by music cancels the border between the listener and the work itself, transforming the sound experience into an extension of one's emotions, allowing memories, joys or melancholies to be processed in a way that words alone would not be able to do.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Lasciarsi trasportare dalla musica annulla il confine tra l'ascoltatore e l'opera stessa, trasformando l'esperienza sonora in un'estensione delle proprie emozioni, permettendo di elaborare ricordi, gioie o malinconie in un modo che le sole parole non sarebbero in grado di fare.
Source: prevale.net

Way, Memory, Music, Joy

Quotes about sound page 29

Quotes about sound
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