The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.
Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
I hate music, especially when it's played.
his snores sounded like ducks mating.
The popping of bubblegum discourages the most determined lecher.
Apparently my street has a leaf blower gang who tag team all day, so the sounds of the leaf blower are forever blowing from dawn to dusk.
I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!
His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.
Noise: a stench in the ear.
Nothing is more annoying than a great singer getting drowned out by a loud guitar.
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.
It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.
Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.
It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.
