Auditory Effect Quotes

What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

I don't really care about a song or lyrics; I'm really just interested in the way people emphasize words. That's what makes a strong impact on me.

Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.

Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.