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.
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I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city. You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.
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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.
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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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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.
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That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.
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You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.
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You don't make a statement unless you make noise.
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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.
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Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
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There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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She’d make a rude noise
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Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
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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.
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I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
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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.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. I liked the buzzy environment; I couldn't speak Japanese when I arrived, so it was kind of a white noise. It felt more sociable than being alone, but now, as I've developed a writing practice, I couldn't do it.
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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.
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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.
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That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.
