Sound Quotes

“I was shocked when I discovered police officers can mute the audio recording on their body cameras!”
― Steven Magee

“Turn the music down, and when you hit zero decibels—turn it down even more. Negative volume produces the most beautiful dancing.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“I managed to combine a saxophone and a trombone into one musical sound. Then I powdered it and sealed it in a can, so when you’re ready to enjoy it just add water and stir.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge. I also arrange notes in other shapes, like sound sculptures.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“It took her a moment, as always, to acclimate to the roar that surged in her mind's ears, a sound she had attempted to describe to her sister and mother more than once but never could. Like being filled with golden bees that were all actually one bee, which was actually a field of shining wheat rustling beneath a blazing sun. It was a sound but not a sound. It was in her ears but it was in her head. It was like tasting a feeling and the feeling was power.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“The chemistry between their voices—his vulnerability, her fragility—it grabs you and doesn’t let you go. With his voice deep and smooth, and her voice higher and raspier, they somehow still meld together effortlessly, like two voices that have been singing together for ages. They created a deeply heartfelt call and response—a story of this romantic and idealized future that may never come to pass.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Aurora was romantic and brooding and heartbreaking and volatile all at once. In the age of arena rock, Daisy Jones & The Six managed to create something that felt intimate even though it could still play to a stadium. They had the impenetrable drums and the searing solos—they had songs that felt relentless in the best way possible. But the album also felt up close and personal. Billy and Daisy felt like they were right next to you, singing just to each other.
“And it was deeply layered. That was the biggest thing Aurora had going for it. It sounds like a good-time album when you first listen to it. It’s an album you can play at a party. It’s an album you get high to. It’s an album you can play as you’re speeding down the highway.
“But then you listen to the lyrics and you realize this is an album you can cry to. And it’s an album you can get laid to.
“For every moment of your life, in 1978, Aurora could play in the background.
“And from the moment it was released, it was a juggernaut.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“The way you say my name sounds different than when anyone else speaks it.”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson

“Rainsford heard a sound. It came out of the darkness, a high screaming sound, the sound of an animal in an extremity of anguish and terror.

He did not recognize the animal that made the sound; he did not try to; with fresh vitality he swam toward the sound. He heard it again; then it was cut short by another noise, crisp, staccato.”
― Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game (Dramatized): An Otio Dramatized Classic

“Polly had a sound. It came from the necklace she always wore: a long silver chain, from which she'd hung two pendants---one fine and shaped like a jacaranda tree, the other a sterling silver cat. The jacaranda tree had been a gift, and the cat had come from a secondhand shop; it had once been the top of a baby's rattle, Polly said, back in the olden days, a "hey diddle diddle" cat with a ball inside that made a soft tinkle whenever she walked. Jess loved that sound. It always made her feel safe and warm and happy.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“Not everything that is recorded can be decoded and not everything that is encoded can be recorded.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Come home to thyself: have faith in thyself for every heart senses the truth and beauty; the place where thoughts cease; the place where not a thing makes a sound, so soundless it is! There it is-- the fullness you longed for ages and ages; Nothing truly appears there except the appearing of thy 'Self'.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Sound of smiling mind is Om.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“It flowed and swam around her, filling her blood, and if she could have done so, she would have melted into the melody, become the rolling drums, the soaring violins, the clashing cymbals with the counter-beat, the horns and reeds with their high-arcing song.

There wasn't enough space inside her for the sound, for all it made her feel- not enough space in her mind, her heart, her body; and all she could do to honour it, worship it, was dance.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“• That angelic melody painted a canvas on the air, the notes drew a golden path from its source and directly into my ears.”
― Poncho Civeira, 5 Breaths to Freedom

“This is not the sound I grew up with. Not the sound I am accustomed to. I don’t want to wake up to the noise of bulldozers. Birds used to wake me up in the morning with their cherubic songs. Where are they now?”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

“For the sonically challenged, the world would be much better indeed if architects and builders cared about noise pollution as much as profit margins.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“A sense of isolation so complete it was almost a sound, a grim buzz, the way she imagined magic sounded.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“Stepping through the mirror was like no physical experience he'd ever had. It was like swimming if the water was made of treacle and also of outer space, sweet and airless and tugging and infinite, and dark in a way that wasn't a binary to light but rather a different state entirely, complete unto itself. The body of the darkness was sound, which was sensation: countless wings brushing against one another, countless blades of golden grass moving in an endless wind, every distant highway ever heard.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“I also like the sound of waves. I realised it recently. The sound of waves makes me nostalgic about a time that I’ve never been to.”
― Asif Hossain, Veronica

“Life is a bell، how you ring it's sound going to come back to you.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“I pray in Words; God answers in vibrations.”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson

“Sound can transport you; beyond that, it can transform you.”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson

“Wake your body to the sound of birds chirping and your soul will awaken too.”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson

“If you think you don’t play an instrument, you’re wrong. Your body is an instrument that vibrates music out into the Universe. Within you, is the song you’ve been searching for. So, sing!”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson

“Do not be confused between sound and noise. Sound will settle you. Noise will not.”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson

“If you want a true, primordial experience honor the first sound of the Universe: OM. Hum it until it hums you.”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson

“If your heart is in pieces, let sound vibrate through you until those pieces fit back into perfect place.”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson

“The sound of you not here rolls through me like never-ending thunder.”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson

“Sometimes the only healing sound you need to hear is the sound of your own name spoken by that person you want to love you most.”
― Dr. Toni Sorenson