Sound Amplification Quotes

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

I love tearing people's speakers up.

Break as few bones as possible and make as much noise as you can.

The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.

He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

I've been called 'the father of loud.'

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

My hearing is usually O.K.

Projection of sound gives the stage a life different from real life. As actors and interpretive artists, we must not only be able to know the attitude of the script, we must also make ourselves heard - without amplification.

Dad could speak with a strong voice. And luckily, he was very good at lip-reading, so he was able to disguise his deafness well. He tried various hearing aids but would find them fiddly and uncomfortable, and worse, they often made horrible high-pitched noises.

Most theatrical events range in the inaudible. When I went to see 'Mamma Mia,' I thought they were playing it through a megaphone.

Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that's the thing to tell the people.

I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.

Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

You know, the ukulele itself is not a very loud instrument, all right? And, you know, compared to like a trumpet, right? A trumpet is really loud.