Noise Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the 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.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

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.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.

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.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.