Quotes about Sounds

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

I am a shadow now, alas! alas! Upon the skirts of human-nature dwelling Alone: I chant alone the holy mass, While little sounds of life are round me knelling, And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass, And many a chapel bell the hour is telling, 310 Paining me through: those sounds grow strange to me, And thou art distant in Humanity.

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sounds contribute towards me.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, / And accrue what I hear into myself....and let sounds contribute / toward me.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

in the woods the tree frogs were going smelling rain in the air they sounded like toy music boxes that were hard to turn and the honeysuckle come

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.