Acoustic Resonance Quotes

Kansas City might be the loudest stadium that I've played in.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

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.

You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?

Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big in the shower, so I break into some "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini 's Turandot or Pearl Jam. You've got to go big when you're in the shower. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.