Murray Walker Quotes

I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

Murray Walker

• Noise
• Affected
• Pits
• Lanes
• Indescribable

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• To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

  

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

  

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• I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

  

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• Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

  

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

  

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• You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

  

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• And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

  

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• It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

  

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• The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.

  

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• We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

  

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• A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.

  

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• Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

  

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• Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

  

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• A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

  

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• I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

  

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• The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

  

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• It's our children and our children's children who will be affected by this technology, and it is up to us to stop it. I hope you will join us.

  

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• We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.

  

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• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  

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• If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

  

  Socrates
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• With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • Made
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• I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Noise
  • Affected
  • Pits