Sound Quotes - Page 53

To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not odors or tastes or sounds.

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

Only grown-up men are scared of women.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there's a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself.

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

In my world, the first thing I reach for is the sound. Technique is Ok, but if you got the technique and I got a good sound, I'll beat you every time. You can play a thousand notes and I can play one note and wipe you out. What I reach for is ... a sound.

Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously , everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

Making the logo twice the size is often a good thing to do, because most advertisements are deficient in brand identification. Showing the clients' faces is also a better stratagem than it may sound, because the public is more interested in personalities than in corporations. Some clients can be projected as human symbols of their own products.