Noise Quotes
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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.
Ethel Waters -
I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo - there isn't really that much to do. When we started we were a cover band and slowly developed our own material.
Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
Bono U2 -
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.
Colin Meloy -
Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.
Ty Segall -
One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night -
The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
Tony Kushner -
How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise
Charles Wright -
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 -
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.
Paul Hindemith -
It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
Herb Alpert
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Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of the noise. I can't do phone banks because I have to save my voice for stage, so the least I can do is a song.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had.
Alan Hollinghurst -
Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.
Elihu Burritt -
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?
Robert Frost -
Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
William Cobbett -
AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.
Emily Dickinson
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Henry James privately characterized Roosevelt as "a dangerous and ominous jingo," and "the mere monstrous embodiment of unprecedented and resounding Noise."
Edmund Morris -
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
Charles Dickens -
I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
Rene Dubos