Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

Sounds always fascinated me.

I'm an acoustical person.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves.

Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

Music is just air moving around.

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

I love the word 'resonance.'

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and principles.