Acoustic Awareness Quotes

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

I live out in the country in Scotland and know that if I close my eyes, I can recognise every sound.

It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.

The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.

The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.

A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.

Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

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!