Soft Sounds Quotes

I'm known for mushy music.

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?

The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

It's not easy to write an understated score over a loud one.

I love that tension between machine sounds and organic sounds, and also the contrast between abrasive sounds and soft sounds.