Sound Quotes

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  The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

  Henry Beston

  Beach, Nature, Rain

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.19, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Music proposes. Sound disposes.

  Babette Deutsch

  Music, Musician, Propose

  Babette Deutsch (1969). “The collected poems”

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  Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  Plato

  Music, Plato, Soul

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• The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Echoes, Seems

  An Essay on Criticism l. 362 (1711)

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.

  Layne Redmond

  Healing, Mean, Technology

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• The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

  Bill Laswell

  Atmosphere, Environment

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• Music without words means
  leaving behind the mind.
  And leaving behind the mind
  is meditation.
  Meditation returns you
  to the source.
  And the source of all is sound.

  Kabir

  Music, Mean, Meditation

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  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Hilarious

  "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Blow, Silence, Heal

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• Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Silence, Quiet, Absence

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• The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

  George Jean Nathan

  Atheism, Forests, Literature

  George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.5, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Causes, Mystery, Divine

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• A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Life, Silence, Fine

  James Sheridan Knowles (1832). “Virginius: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.67

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

  Paul Hirsch

  Keys, Track, Accepting

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• Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Love, Music, Expression

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.

  Maria Cristina Mena

  Inspirational, Black And White, Color

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• Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

  Melvin Van Peebles

  Character, Important, Film

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  Music, Poetry, Silence

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• Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Parent, Forever, Mute

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• Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

  David Eddings

  Real, Character, People

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• A sound like a sound of thunder rolled,
  And the heart of a nation stirred

  William Ross Wallace

  Heart, Liberty, Thunder

  William Ross Wallace (1851). “Meditations in America, and Other Poems”, p.37

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