Sound Quotes

“Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.”

“By magic numbers and persuasive sound.”

“The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”

“The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”

“Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.”

“And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.”

“The murmur that springs
From the growing of grass.”

“Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.”

“I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives
'Twixt it and silence.”

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“You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?”

“If a tree falls in a forest, and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a noise?”

“To all proportioned terms he must dispense
And make the sound a picture of the sense.”

“Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?”

“His feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters.”

“What's the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!”

“A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.”

“My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred,
For the same sound is in my ears
Which in those days I heard.”

“Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.”