Top 100 Noise Music Quotes
#1. I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.
Grimes
#2. For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.
Christian Fennesz
#3. Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it
Thurston Moore
#4. And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
Fred Frith
#5. Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise
Derrick May
#6. In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.
Sarah McLachlan
#8. I want to press the button on her that controls that noise, that turns it up, that makes it music in my ears.
Lauren Blakely
#9. NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
#10. The owner of the boom box marches over and turns the music down. He shrugs when he sees me staring. "Hey, noise pollution elicits fewer phone calls to the police than screaming and battle sounds. At least, that's the case in Berlin," he says.
Amy Plum
#11. When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.
Yoko Ono
#12. Music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A.P.
#13. Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
Dan Hill
#14. A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.
Jose Rizal
#15. I believe the use of noise to make music will increase until we reach a
music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make
available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard.
John Cage
#16. What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.
Justin Broadrick
#17. Why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
Don DeLillo
#18. We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
Freddie Mercury
#20. "Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.
Dar Williams
#21. Above me, wind does its best
to blow leaves off
the aspen tree a month too soon.
No use wind. All you succeed
in doing is making music, the noise
of failure growing beautiful.
Bill Holm
#22. There is music in the noise, beauty in the chaos, truth in the lies, light in the void. He who has eyes, let him see.
Jonathan Maberry
#23. A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.
Megha Khare
#24. I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.
Erika M. Anderson
#25. If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.
Merzbow
#26. Movie music is noise ... even more painful than my sciatica.
Thomas Beecham
#27. If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.
Russell Simmons
#28. What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
Zedd
#29. I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
Rachel Nichols
#30. Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
Robert Fripp
#31. All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine.
(on Bach)
Arnold Bax
#32. If you are trully in a place that is way from the noise of civilization,you can actually experience what real slience is about.It is filled with sounds of nature.There is a musicality,a harmony to it...
K.J. Kilton
#33. People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
Bill Murray
#34. Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.
Jose Rizal
#35. There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.
Terry Pratchett
#36. I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get up there and have no traditional music ability and be in a band, it was really appealing to me.
Girl Talk
#37. One person's data is another person's noise.
K.C. Cole
#38. In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
Ralph Ellison
#39. The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
Rabindranath Tagore
#40. Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [ ... ] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.
Raph Koster
#41. I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.
Sylvia Porter
#42. Music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
Anne Lamott
#43. Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.
Thomas Beecham
#44. Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
Rumi
#45. Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#46. 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.
Brian Pinkerton
#47. The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Thomas Beecham
#48. The music had the ability to conjure images in my head and help me drown out the tension and noise I was trying to avoid at my house.
Duff McKagan
#49. I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
Robert Frost
#50. I really like the idea of music when it has form and then sort of loses its form, or becomes noise, and then comes back again ... That's how I think of it: structure turning into noise and coming back around again.
Kevin Huizenga
#52. Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
Lou Reed
#53. He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.
Vikram Sarabhai
#54. I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make ... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.
Sivamani
#55. 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.
John Lydon
#56. A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
Carl Jung
#57. The fixation of the theater in one language
written words, music, lights, noises
betokens its imminent ruin.
Antonin Artaud
#58. Music is an equation of noises and I fucking damn like noises... I die for one more noise.
Deyth Banger
#59. The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Jose Bergamin
#60. Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.
Francine Prose
#61. Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilerated speechlessness.
Yann Martel
#62. When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.
Ben Carson
#63. Grace was pouring out everywhere, from hidden sounds, into Els's damaged auditory cortex. And all that secret, worldwide composition said the same thing: listen closer, listen smaller, listen lighter, to any noise at all, and hear what the world will still sound like, long after your concert ends.
Richard Powers
#64. Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise.
J.D. Robb
#65. Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
John Milton
#66. Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.
Rachel Van Dyken
#67. What I hear as noise is perceived as music by my teenage grandchildren, at a fairly primitive level of perceptual experience. And
Noam Chomsky
#68. I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.
Roshon Fegan
#69. I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!
Meshell Ndegeocello
#70. There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to every MySpace page, so what's the difference? It's just noise that you filter out.
Tim Hecker
#71. Sound is the vocabulary of nature ... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary ... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.
Pierre Schaeffer
#72. We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.
Jack Gilbert
#73. You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
Graydon Carter
#74. With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a lot of Hollywood-style percussion or brass, because that's the only thing that will cut through.
Steven Price
#75. To read a poem
Is to see light where there is darkness
Is to hear silence where there is noise
Is to dance where there is no music
Is to sing where the only instrument is words
And the stirring, impassioned pauses
A.A. Patawaran
#76. The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams.
Richard Flanagan
#77. One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.
Henry Rollins
#78. In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.
William Irwin Thompson
#79. Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
Chuck Palahniuk
#80. The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.
Richard Baker
#81. My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds.
Suzy Kassem
#82. And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do
if there's enough of it
is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.
Esther Duflo
#83. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Yann Martel
#84. In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a din in the air. But the constant noise is not an omen of music to come.
Lyn Hejinian
#86. I rest in silence and music and long strides, while Sam rests in noise and motion.
Anne Lamott
#87. They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at the first hearing - than birds' songs ever are in our world.
C.S. Lewis
#88. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
Hermann Hesse
#89. Music is the metaphysical representation of our shredded hearts, all of our pain and anger, our love and joy, ground up and blended together. It saves people, and it destroys them. If it's anything in between, it's not really music at all, just noise.
C.M. Stunich
#90. I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never really fully quiet.
Jason Wu
#92. For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing.
Jean Dujardin
#93. Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling.
Christian Louboutin
#94. You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
Chuck Palahniuk
#95. One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.
Henry Rollins
#96. Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
Duke Ellington
#97. If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#99. Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
Fritz Lang
#100. Hope had become despair, protestors had become terrorists, love had become sex, music had become noise, and us had become me.
Susan R. Sloan
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