
Top 58 Noise Not Music Quotes
#1. Cole updated Beckett:
Stay where u r. Not sure how this will go. He's playing now.
Cole glanced at Beckett's response:
Ave Fuckong Mariea?
Cole wondered how to put it:
No, just noise. Not music.
Beckett's next message had no typos:
Shit
Debra Anastasia
#2. The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Thomas Beecham
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. One person's data is another person's noise.
K.C. Cole
#6. In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
Ralph Ellison
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.
Sylvia Porter
#11. 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
#12. Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.
Thomas Beecham
#13. Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
Rumi
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
Lou Reed
#22. He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.
Vikram Sarabhai
#23. A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
Carl Jung
#24. The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Jose Bergamin
#25. The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.
Richard Baker
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
Brian Eno
#31. We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
Freddie Mercury
#32. Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise
Derrick May
#33. 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
#35. 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
#36. NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A.P.
#40. Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
Dan Hill
#41. A faith pure and simple distinguishes itself from superstition as a flame from the smoke and music from noise.
Jose Rizal
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
Don DeLillo
#45. People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
Bill Murray
#47. "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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.
Merzbow
#53. Movie music is noise ... even more painful than my sciatica.
Thomas Beecham
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine.
(on Bach)
Arnold Bax
#58. 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
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