Sound Quotes - Page 13

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die!

It always sounds more right to me when it's detuned. When it's right in tune, it's like there's something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it's all about frequencies and what they do to you. That's the real core.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.

He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.