Noise Control Quotes

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

In developed countries, strong rules are in place to restrict sound pollution and curb its deadly effects. As law-abiding citizens with social responsibility, we should all come together against this unhealthy trend.

There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

I don't have any weird night rituals. I definitely am a ritualistic person... I like to go downstairs and remind my roommate-drummer not to practice early the next morning, so I can sleep in.

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

There's a lot of noise in the world. And one of the beautiful things about doing theater and film is the absence of that noise or, perhaps, the adding of that noise where it's helpful in telling the story. I'm always trying to get rid of that noise. The more you do it, the better you get.

I had two roosters at one point, and that was pretty noisy. Our neighbors didn't like us very much. They would crow at the same time. That's why we had them in soundproof kennels.

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.

I don't wish that I didn't have the screaming girls.

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

I have an ear monitor to block outside noise when I'm performing. It makes it easier. But sometimes I like to take the ear monitor off and listen to the craziness going on.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

I'm not a grunter, I'm relatively quiet. There's a little bit of breathing out. Some people get really loud! There's a little bit of psyching up sometimes, if you're going for a really heavy weight you might make a little noise, but when lifting, I try and keep it quite quiet - I'm not a fan of male noise in that way to be totally honest. I think when girls do it it's not as bad, but when guys do it it's just like, 'Come on mate, hold it in!'.

Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that tends to encourage barking. The problem you've got is that the kind of materials that absorb noise are difficult to clean. One of the biggest problems in the design of animal shelters is that animals are barking and it's like the sound of a jet plane taking off.

Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.

Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane