Sound Perception 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.

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

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

When I hear myself, I don't know how I sound.

Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn't hear it.

American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.

The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

I can hear the music all around me.

Hey, yummy leather guy? Can you hear me? (Amanda)

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

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

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

I have a good ear for music.