Noise Quotes

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
Clyde Tombaugh

Music, Old, Place

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
Phylicia Rashad

Time, While, Watch

Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
Feist

Try, Show, Playing

I like the noise of democracy.
James Buchanan

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.
Dylan McDermott

Mean, Rather, Actor

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Knox

End, Sense, Loud

When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.
Ken Jennings

Good, Cool, Game

The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.
Niall Horan

Bigger, Crowd, Nerves

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.
Steve Burns

Crazy, Sound, Please

This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.
Thomas Malory

While, Couple, Beast

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

Music, Find, Around

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.
James Chanos

Work, Negative, Wrong

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
Thomas Beecham

Music, Movie, Painful

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.
George Murray

Find, Living, Around

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.
Michael Eisner

Different, Point, Simply

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!
Shalom Harlow

Able, Feet, Dancing

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.
Maria Bartiromo

Important, May, After

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.
Maria Bartiromo

Job, Through, Become

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.
Jason Lee

School, Fun, Making

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.
Daisy Berkowitz

May, Guitar, Others

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

Music, Art, Rock

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.
Geraldine Chaplin

Change, Crazy, Alive

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
Robert B. Laughlin

Life, Nature, Words

I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.
Bong Joon-ho

Writing, Coffee, Whatever

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Great, Hate, Blessings

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

Miss, Sound, City

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
Vicente del Bosque

Makes, Quite, Sell

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.
Trevor Phillips

Question, Britain

When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.
Peter Mayhew

Character, Speak, Consider

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
T-Bone Burnett

Trying, Old, Days

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