Noise Quotes

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant.

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

They that govern the most make the least noise.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.