Music Volume Quotes

#1. The old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

David Thorne

#2. I turn up the volume of the music.
Sleep through that, Lelliot!

E.L. James

#3. In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

Johannes Brahms

#4. Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Pete Seeger

#5. As darkness descended, fear continued hammering on the cracks of her rational mind. Even the critters had decided to ratchet up the volume. Great. A creepy nature soundtrack for my own personal nightmare. How about some Tomb Raider music, people!

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#6. The damn bells kept ringing through the fog. Bud mumbled a command to his music system, a phased acoustical array splayed across both eardrums like the seeds on a strawberry. The volume went up but couldn't scour away the deep tones of the carillon, which

Neal Stephenson

#7. You should be loud enough to be heard, but not overshadow the soloist or the other members of the rhythm section. Finding this volume balance is critical for a good feeling in the band. Creating bass lines

Sher Music

#8. I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

Twyla Tharp

#9. I go through life now reminding myself to remember something, and I do this while that something is happening. I'll be experiencing a moment and I'll say to myself, "Remember this!" Otherwise my whole life just blurs by.

Heidi Julavits

#10. It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

Idries Shah

#11. If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

Norman Lear

#12. Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all.

Neil Lowe

#13. Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II is an album that readily serves as background music to its own telling.

Marc Weidenbaum

#14. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on.

Suzy Kassem

#15. When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.

Roxane Gay

#16. When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices ...

Andres Segovia

#17. Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

Hunter S. Thompson

#18. Irrationality is the square root of all evil

Douglas Hofstadter

#19. I could turn up the volume on their songs and that loudness matched all my panic and fear, anger and emotions that seemed up until that point to be uncontrollable, even amorphous.

Carrie Brownstein

#20. I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.

Patrick Stump

#21. Life gives us the music but we can raise or lower the volume as we like

Natalia Lizardo

#22. Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the Internet comes with a lot of focus on your "personal brand."

Marie Calloway

#23. The familiar (if loud) churn of the engine made it hard to talk, especially with the windows open (the air-conditioning didn't work), but the day was warm and they blasted the music and sang along. Nessa loved singing at full volume. She couldn't carry a tune, but with Bree it didn't matter.

C.D. Bell

#24. Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.

Josiah Bartlett

#25. A great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls. Music bombarded him at such an immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons; he felt his jaw vibrate, his eyes wobble in his head.

Ray Bradbury

#26. I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

Chuck Klosterman

#27. It seemed like the only thing to do was to crank the volume of my tape of British music in protest. Even though I was the only one who could hear it, I felt like I was doing something important.

Joe Pernice

#28. Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#29. Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.

Steve Vai

#30. Is the phrase 'pay' or 'play the piper'
I inquire, why
'Cause I admire a desire to flip the switch
Yeah make a way to face the music like
Life savings for a mosh pit riot
Listen to a mix
Rock the tickets, higher volume
Velocity which shakes a cockpit's pilot

Criss Jami

#31. Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

Louise Fresco

#32. I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

Zach Condon

#33. I'd argue that contemporary hip-hop is written (or at least the music is) to be heard in cars with systems like the one below. The massive volume seems to be more about sharing your music with everyone, gratis!

David Byrne

#34. Brand handling synergy means developing and communicating your company's values and identity consistently.

Martin Lindstrom

#35. Trying to understand her teenage daughter's behavior was like trying to listen to a recording of a symphony whose volume vacillated unpredictably from barely audible to deafening. She couldn't hear the music, and all she wanted to do was leave the room.

Sonja Yoerg

#36. My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.

Kenny Burrell

#37. I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

Ed Helms