Auditory Stimulation Quotes

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

There's certain little sounds that I just like to hear.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.

If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it.

Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights.

It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.

I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.