External Noise Quotes

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

Performing outside is always kind of strange. Usually, you can't hear something, whether it's your voice or instrument, but it's a fun challenge.

There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.

Being compared to players, being linked to other teams - I don't really take any of it in, to be honest. If you think about it too much, you get caught up in it.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

When you in the studio you don't need everybody calling your phone telling you about what's going on outside the studio. I don't need those distractions.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.

I focus on the team and I block out all the outside media stuff, because it's so irrelevant and uncontrollable.

I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.

We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we're doing and try not to think about the madness that's surrounding it, and all the hype.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

Forget what others whisper in your ears. Most of that is pure rubbish that obstructs the view to what really is important. Always make your own decisions. That is what makes us human.