Quotes by Sound Every single element in an advertisement - headline, subhead, photo, and copy - must be put there not because it looks good, not because it sounds good, but because testing has shown that it works best! John Caples elementssoundlooks I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds. John C. McGinley redpersonalitysound The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. John Cage integratingsilencesound From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them - electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting. John Carpenter soundplayideas There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound. John Cage happeningssilencesound Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent. John Cage excellentheardsound What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools. John Carpenter symphonysoundfeelings I believe the use of noise to make music will increase until we reach a John Cage musicalsoundbelieve I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love. John Cage lessonssoundremember If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe. John Corigliano oboessoundplay Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound. John Cage pregnantsilencesound There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state. John Coltrane soundfeelingsneeds Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. John Crowe Ransom rhyminguniformssound The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential. John Coltrane soundplaytrying For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue. John Cage environmentsoundneeds Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts. Jodi Picoult doubtsoundrooms Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow, that sounds like classical music." Somebody else might think it sounds like a slow jam. John Dieterich soundnumbersthinking I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out. John D'Agata risksoundsilly I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I like it. John Dieterich soundfeelingsway I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended. John Cage durationmusicalsound«8081828384858687888990»
