Noise Quotes
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We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and make references to everybody from John Cage to whoever.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.
Geraldine Chaplin
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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?
Robert Frost
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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
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
Gautama Buddha
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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
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You don't make a statement unless you make noise.
Adam Cole
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A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
Kate Elliott
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
William Cobbett
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
William Dean Howells
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That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.
Jerry Coleman
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Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
Charles Dickens
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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
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The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise.
Ben Eine
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There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.
Sebastian Horsley
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You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.
Darrell Johnson
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Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.
Kate Morton
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You couldn't breathe. The lights didn't work and the radio transmitters would emit this incredibly high-pitched white noise.
Ben Affleck
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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
Seth Godin
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She’d make a rude noise
Courtney Milan
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If you have a smile on your face and you make a lot of noise, people really really think you know what you are doing.
Jose Pasillas Incubus
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The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.
Armin Wiebe