Noise Quotes

Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

When I fly, I never check my bags. I bring a carry-on, an eye pillow, noise-canceling headphones, a big pillow and a blanket.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

Shut your noise, you old c***!

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.