Sound Quotes

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”

“The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.”

“The sound of a Moog synthesizer is the sound of electricity.”

“Little Sal picked three berries and dropped them in her little tin pail... ku-plink, ku-plank, ku-plunk!”

“I'm interested in the emotional content of a sound.”

“I've always been interested in the way that sound exists in a space.”

“Everything we do is music.”

“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”

“When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic... I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound.”

“I'm not a nostalgic person, but I do love the sound of those old records.”

“I'm always searching for that sound that I hear in my head.”

“The sound of a violin can be so many things – it can scream, it can cry, it can sing.”

“The main thing is the sound, and if that is not right, then nothing is.”

“It's got a hard drive to it. It's Scotch-Irish music, but it has a part of the blues in it. It's a high-lonesome sound.”

“For me, sound is a very powerful tool to create an emotional landscape.”

“Silence is not the absence of sound, but a different kind of sound.”

“A sine wave is the purest form of sound, the atom of acoustics.”

“The sound is the experience.”

“Music is 50% of the film.”

“I try to get it to sound like a human voice, screaming.”