About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.
Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.
Nothing gets on other people's nerves at the office more than a whistler. And the sad part is, these whistlers don't know they're doing it. Someone should, tactfully, tell the whistler how much it disrupts the office environment.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.
Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.
When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
Chatterers are a menace.
Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!
Because I go outside sometimes, I'm exposed to terrible, terrible music in public.
I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.
I feel that too much singing annoys people.
I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!
