Noise Quotes - Page 11

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. " I'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want a girl to 'ate you, there's easy enough ways of making it 'appen. You don't need my help with the poor thing." And with that, she vanished, spinning away into the mists among the graves. Will, looking after her, sighed. "Not for her," he said, under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, "for me..." and he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.

They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangled noise.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

You need the noise of your friends in space.

Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.

the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.

Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.

The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.