Auditory Perception Quotes

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, it makes no sound.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

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.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

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

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

Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

I listen to the voices.

"Doctor, I have a ringing in my ears." "Don't answer!"

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.