Sound Projection Quotes

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

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

More basses, because you are so far away.

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.

Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.