Loudness Quotes

… the thug is aware that loudness convinces 60 persons where reasoning convinces but one..

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

To tell you the truth, my father says I came out of the womb literally singing and dancing, as though there was a spotlight on me. When I ask what I was like when I was little, they just say 'loud.'

I have definitely noticed I am very passionate. So if I'm fighting with someone I'll be SO super loud and aggressive, and make sure that my point is heard.

At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

The darned thing about mandolins is they're really hard to turn up as loud as you would need to be to play with a drum set. They cease to sound like mandolins.

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

Boyle's Law: As pressure on a candidate increases, the volume at which he speaks also increases.

I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.

I hate when I see someone who speaks English speaking to someone who speaks a different language, and they're screaming as if going louder is going to help the other person understand.

Quiet is the new loud.

Girls were scared of me because I can be loud. Barbara, my wife of 51 years, is very low-key. She was my picture agent's secretary.

I'm naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

… the scene of noise and uproar which the House of Commons now exhibits is perfectly disgusting. This used not to be the case in better, or at lease more gentlemanlike, times; no noises were permissible but the cheer and the cough, the former admitting every variety of intonation expressive of admiration, approbation, assent, denial, surprise, indignation, menace, sarcasm. Now all the musical skill of this instrument is lost and drowned in shouts, hootings, groans, noises of the most discordant that the human throat can emit, sticks and feet beating against the floor.

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.

Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.