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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• That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

  Paul Brunton

  Peace, Silence, Meditation

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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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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• The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

  Bill Laswell

  Atmosphere, Environment

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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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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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

  Robert Fripp

  Silence, Quiet, Absence

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• Music proposes. Sound disposes.

  Babette Deutsch

  Music, Musician, Propose

  Babette Deutsch (1969). “The collected poems”

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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 organized sound.

  Edgard Varese

  Music Is, Organized

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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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• 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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• The sound of water says what I think.

  Zhuangzi

  Nature, Thinking, Water

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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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• 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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• Sound--
  That stealeth ever on the ear of him
  Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim,
  And sees the darkness coming as a cloud--
  Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Distance, Clouds, Voice

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales”, p.45, Library of America

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• When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beach, Confused, Ocean

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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