Noise Quotes - Page 24

• I really like the idea of music when it has form and then sort of loses its form, or becomes noise, and then comes back again... That's how I think of it: structure turning into noise and coming back around again.

  Kevin Huizenga

  Thinking, Ideas, Structure

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You think of it [voicing] as something where you not only don't //need// your body, but you don't even have it to use! There's nothing you can do with your body that's going to show in the final product. Maybe that's all the more reason I used my body so much to get whatever noise or sounds out of it I could. When it was needed to keep the energy up I found myself almost running in place! It is very physical.

  Jim Parsons

  Running, Thinking, Energy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

  Jesse Jackson

  People, Justice, Together

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson appears at protest in Ferguson". "Hannity" with Andrea Tantaros, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Space, Important, Pages

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"

  Rob Corddry

  Drinking, Shoes, Two

  "What Happens In Vegas - Rob Corddry and Lake Bell interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.

  Yoko Ono

  Mother, Writing, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Mean, People

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “After Many a Summer”, p.54, Random House

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• 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.

  Marianne Moore

  Ocean, Sea, Buoys

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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• The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.

  Dave Barry

  God, Animal, Night

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• A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Cities, Paris, Mountain

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• Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

  Jane Austen

  Matter, Taste, Wells

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.1761, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

  Florence King

  Knowing, Mediocrity, Singers

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.58, Macmillan

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• When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.

  Frank Pittman

  Boys, Men, Guilt

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• The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Ideas, Voice, House

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.27, Church Publishing, Inc.

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

  Karl Kraus

  Music, Technology, Rooms

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.

  Greta Garbo

  Beautiful, Car, Ugly

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• Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

  Franz Kline

  Boston, Worry, Use

  Franz Kline, Harry F. Gaugh (1979). “Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions”

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• The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell.

  Stephen Levine

  Letting Go, Mind, Balance

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• Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

  Max Picard

  Cities, World, Goods

  Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

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• One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Country, Children, Sunshine

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• On numerous visits to Manhattan, I have found myself poking around the city trying to find a moment of quiet and once located a hint of it in Central Park during a windless, late-night snowfall. There I stood absolutely still in the lemon glow of the city, a sky full of snow. The city still roared from all sides, a thousand noises compressed down to just one. I counted that distant, mild roar as quiet, a welcome relief from the more pressing noises of the daytime city.

  Craig Childs

  Night, Sky, Cities

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• Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

  Michael Bond

  Boys, Smell, Special

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• Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Secret Places, Voice

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• There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Father, Weather

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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• Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

  Wesley Pruden

  Math, Thinking, Government

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