Noise Quotes

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. “I thought I heard something.” “Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face.

All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

Lady, if you laugh and you don't make a noise, you're a shaker, and it's freaking me out.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my ears need a rest sometimes. I do enjoy listening to classical music.

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

Don't buy the toys that make the noise!

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

The more noise, the higher I get.

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.

And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.