Quotes about Unpleasant Sound

Alan Watts

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

Eduard Hanslick

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

Nadya Suleman

Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.

Ambrose Bierce

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

James Hetfield

Rap is just to me very annoying.

Maurice Gibb

Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.

Carine Roitfeld

I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

Sarah Paulson

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

Rush Limbaugh

She sounds like a screeching ex-wife.

Ambrose Bierce

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

John Ruskin

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

Hans Zimmer

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

George Benson

You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty....you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way.

Grey DeLisle

I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.