#audible

You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#feelings #great #inaudible #links #little

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#canned #like #music #wallpaper

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard. ↗

— Bill Dixon

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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#laughter #mind #nothing

Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass. ↗

— Richard Morris

#anything #being #canon #end #first

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#blow #done #expert #itself #last

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing. ↗

— Steve Reich

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I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

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Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

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