Quotes of: Noise Keyword

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Robert Fripp

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." [ , 2005]

Steve Jobs

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Lisa Ling

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

Max von Sydow

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

David Ogden Stiers

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

Emily Dickinson

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

E. M. Forster

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Babe Ruth

Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.

Gopichand Lagadapati

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

James Stephens

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.

James Lafferty

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Fritz Lang

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

Graydon Carter

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

John Lydon

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

Alejandro Amenabar

Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.

Life

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Italo Calvino

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Len Deighton

The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped. Something inside had torn. There were seven place...

Ghostwritten

People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we mig...

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