Noise Quotes

“Music is a complete evocation – like a smell. It can bring an entire memory and feeling back to you in a rush. Much more complete than even a photograph. You allow yourself a certain visual distance with photos – not music. It envelopes you – there’s no way to escape it. It’s a great test of sensitivity – the degree of reaction to music. I use it all the time. I call it my ‘Music Test.’ People today don’t want to hear the truth. They’re really afraid of tranquility and silence – they’re afraid they might begin to understand their own motivations too well. They keep a steady stream of noise going to protect themselves, to build a wall against the truth. Like African natives, beating on their drums, rattling their gourds, shaking the bells to scare off evil spirits. As long as there’s enough noise, there’s nothing to fear – or hear. But they will listen. Times are changing.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

“A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely; but be sure you get to where you are going with your words.”
― Israelmore ayivor

“I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing the same way twice, without varying a word. If music is a language, why don’t people use it with the same subtlety, nuance, and facility as they do the spoken language? Probably because they don’t verbalize with the same vocabulary and tone they once did. It has been said that a people’s character is reflected in their music. Our culture is a perfect example. If people here walk around using one-syllable words with no color, no variety, no shading, how can we expect our musical language to be any different? It’s like the emperor’s new clothes – sure they can sit and make wild noises on their synthesizers and call it music – who questions? But ask them to pull up a chair and play ‘Gal in Calico’ or Temptation,’ or even a straight dramatic version of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and they can’t do it. They’re too pretentious. They can’t just play songs.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

“Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...
Dead silence.
Literally dead.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“No. Have it here where it is quiet." "You and your quiet", said Brett. "What is it men feel about quiet?" "We like it," said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

“You know something, it’s not easy to break out of your comfort zone. People will tear you down, tell you you shouldn’t have bothered in the first place. But let me tell you something, there’s not much of a difference between a stadium full with cheering fans and an angry crowd screaming abuse at you. They’re both just making a lot of noise. How you take it is up to you. Convince yourself they’re cheering for you. You do that, and someday, they will.”
― Glee

“Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

“When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.”
― Jocelyn Murray

“Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.”
― Bill Cosby, Fatherhood

“We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Long War

“A day is too precious a treasure to forfeit.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.”
― Raph Koster, Theory of Fun for Game Design

“Contrasts

The windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windows

Shine

The precious stones of light

Listen to the violins of the limousines and the xylophones of the linotypes

The sketcher washes with the hand-towel of the sky

All is color spots

And the hats of the women passing by are comets in the conflagration of the evening


Unity

There's no more unity

All the clocks now read midnight after being set back ten minutes

There's no more time.

There's no more money.

In the Chamber

They are spoiling the marvelous elements of raw material

("Contrasts")”
― Blaise Cendrars, Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques de Blaise Cendrars: Edition critique et commentée

“Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“In the stillness I find my heart growing hot while I seek the person I have already found. God is so much more than I know.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand

“When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise. I learnt to take the course of my life, not by violence but rather with intelligence.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing—even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“Think most of what matters. Think less of what doesn't.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“Durante il fragoroso decollo Dick si sentì intorpidito, rendendosi conto di quanto fosse stanco. Un’enorme persuasiva tranquillità s’impossessò di lui, e lasciò la malattia ai malati, il rumore ai motori, la direzione ai piloti.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“I am inundated with feeling. I feel like a pinball machine on tilt. All the buzzers are ringing, lights are flashing, and I am about to fry my circuits. Nothing is coming in,and nothing is going out. I feel electrified. The wires ignited, sparked, and fizzled. I want it all to slow down. I go right to the water to douse my flame. I immerse myself in the hot water. I want to wash the smells off my body. I can smell Isabella's hair, her breath, and her child vaginal scent. My hair smells of smoke,and I want to wash Francis off me.”
― Holly A. Smith, Fire of the Five Hearts

“Jo's whimper rose slightly but the scream she yearned for wouldn't materialise. Instead, as she looked at her hand, she began to make a gurgling, gagging noise, more animal than human.”
― Martin Pond, Turn Around Where Possible

“Noise creates dusty air in the mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine.

(on Bach)”
― Arnold Bax

“The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.”
― Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle