Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
Noise Quotes
It’s the empty can that makes the most noise.
I went into show business to make a noise, to “pronounce myself”. I want to go on making the loudest noise to the most people.
Music and silence – how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell – though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express – no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, […]
If you love not the noise of the bells, why pull the ropes?
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation… Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously […]
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Noise, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Phonograph, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
Ignorant people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.
