Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
—Mary Pickford
The Qabalists believed that the universe was created from sound. Thus by reciting sacred sounds, changes or transformations of matter could take place. Healing could simply consist of reinvoking those sacred sounds in the body.… Perhaps this is what the shamans do when they chant.
—Fred Alan Wolf
I woke up in the middle of the night and climbed out of the tent to make coffee. There was no sound save the wind and, in all that space, not one light, just a scant new moon that hung in the sky like a fine silk thread. The twentieth century had vanished. I raised my cup in a toast.
—Richard West
Avoid safety. The very word has a mean sound.
—Constance Wagner
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
—Pierre Schaeffer
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
—Voltaire
I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.
—Elizabeth Berg in Open House