Miranda July Quotes

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.

I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. “I thought I heard something.” “Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

When I am willing, all sound is available to me.

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.