Sound Pollution Quotes

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

In developed countries, strong rules are in place to restrict sound pollution and curb its deadly effects. As law-abiding citizens with social responsibility, we should all come together against this unhealthy trend.

The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.

Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

Noise: a stench in the ear.

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.

Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

Our children will not know what it is to be free from sound of railways.