Sound Appreciation Quotes

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.

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

I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

I like things that catch your ears.

Sometimes I prefer when I can hear other people conduct my music so I can sit out and actually hear it. When you are in the middle of it, sometimes it's a little bit hard to hear and get the whole effect.

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.

I honestly like any sound. Birds. I have a very broad space to accept or enjoy anything except quiet.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

Good sounds, they just make you feel good.

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.