Sound Reception Quotes

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.