I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.
If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.
The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.
If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.
I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.
So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.
They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.
For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
Spread your ear pollution far and wide.
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?
