Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

The crow cawed again overhead, and a strong sea wind came in and burst through the trees, making the green pine needles shake themselves all over the place. That sound always gave me goose bumps,...

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

The church I had loved so much was not a good place for me to hear the sound of my own voice. There was room for my talent but no room for my voice. The...

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

I collect words–they are sweets in the mouth of sound.

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

In an endless silence even screams sound silent.

It’s all about sound. It’s that simple.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

Tears are my joy to hide my pain;like thunder hides the sound of rain.

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch’d within us, and...

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was...

Earwax is nothing more than sound boogers. I’m too congested to hear anything but I love you. Not that I expect you to flick it at me lightly.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there’s no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go...

Music gives inspiration…one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas.

The one thing I have that nobody else has or can duplicate is my sound. The sound of my voice. The sound of my life. Others may say similar things but they can’t say them...

When you’re in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show. But Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good....

Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but...

It’s sometimes better to pretend I don’t hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia,...

The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.

I don’t really care how I sound.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.

Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because a formal place has been set for it. At the moment when things have gotten sufficiently...

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

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Do not trap yourself into an owl’s hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody’s ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There’s only one of those.

Listen to the rhythm of your life. March to the beat of your own sound. Your true self is what others are attracted to.

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass,which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.

Flowers smell terrific, but how do they sound? If they sound like your love life, then you’ve got to take your Helen Keller Goggles off.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It’s a language that was alien and then it’s less and less alien as it continues to live.

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

Recovery is most often associated with some type of illness, addiction or mental health issue. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the struggle of getting back to where you were before the sound...

Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.