Sound And Music Quotes:

As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.

- Nancy Kates

topic: Sound And Music, Media, Careers

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost like with sound and music and images, it's your tool to tell the story, especially when I decide to structure the film in a way that usually goes against the conventions of the three-act structure which most films are made out of.

- Nicolas Winding Refn

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Powerful, Character, Sound And Music

When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to steer the sound and music to different music and throwing in the "kitchen sink" of sorts into the music. With that way, you end up putting in much more than before and you could even make much more next time around.

- Steve "Lips" Kudlow

topic: Writing, Sound And Music, Kitchen, Different Music, Kitchen Sinks

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

- Luke Ford

topic: Sound And Music, Guy, Special

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

- George Lucas

topic: Movie, Sound And Music, Actors

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

- Julie Andrews

source: Laurence Maslon, Julie Andrews (2015). “The Sound of Music Companion: The official companion to the world's most beloved musical”, p.236, Pavilion Books

topic: Sound And Music, Doors, Window

I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.

- William Friedkin

source: "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Revisits To Live and Die in L.A. on Blu-ray". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

topic: Running, Sound And Music, Cities, Premieres

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

- William Monahan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Sound And Music, People, Sound

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

- Confucius

topic: Music, Wisdom, Art, Music Life, Music Therapy

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

- Lord Byron

topic: Music, Men, Ears, Music And Life, Inspirational Music

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

- William Cowper

source: William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

topic: Music, Heart, Air, Music Soul, Unison

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

source: Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

topic: Music, Wisdom, Philosophy, Music Life, Musical Life

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

- Robert Fripp

topic: Music, Wine, Silence, Music Life, Music Is Life

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Music, Music Life, Music Is Life

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Music, Soul, Spirit, Music And Healing, Music Artist

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.357, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Music, Men, Piano, Jazz And Life, Sound And Music

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

- Eleanor Parker

source: "Fictional character: The Baroness". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. 1965.

topic: Men, Irresistible, Sound Of Music, Sound And Music

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

- Yoko Ono

topic: Music, Artist, People, Sound And Music

The Hills are alive with the sound of CRAP!

- Colin Mochrie

source: "The Sound of Music" (song) (1959)

topic: Sound, Alive, Hills, Sound Of Music, Film And Music

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

- Plato

topic: Instruments, Music Is, Math And Music, Cool Music, Music And Healing

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.316, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Music, Men, Ears, Music And Life, Inspirational Music

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

- Oscar Hammerstein II

topic: Music, Song, Years, Sound Of Music, Film And Music

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

- William Congreve

source: 1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

topic: Inspirational, Music, Rocks, Music And Healing, Music Healing

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

- John Cage

topic: Life, Music, Space, Empty Space, Silence And Peace

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

- Pat Conroy

source: Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

topic: Music, Journey, Desert, Music Is Life, Inspirational Music

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

- Leopold Stokowski

source: Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

topic: Music, Silence, Canvas, Jazz And Life, Music Life

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Music, Wisdom, Silence, Jazz And Life, Music Life

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

- Leonard Bernstein

source: Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

topic: Music, Communication, Talking, Conductor, Pianist

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

- Giuseppe Mazzini

source: Giuseppe Mazzini, Emilie Ashurst Venturi (2004). “Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: (1836) : Envisioning a Social Opera”, Edwin Mellen Pr

topic: Echoes, Voice, World, Spiritual Music, Harmonious

Music gives a soul to the universe.

- Plato

topic: Music, Wings, Giving, Jazz And Life, Music Life

Where words fail, music speaks.

- Hans Christian Andersen

source: Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

topic: Inspirational, Music, Listening, Music Life, Music Therapy

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

- Billy Joel

source: FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Music, Music Life, Soul Healing

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

- Steve Martin

topic: Music, Talking, Dancing, Jazz Musician, Modern Architecture

Music is the universal language of mankind.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Music, Teacher, Appreciation, Music Life, Music Is Life

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

- Mark Twain

source: Autobiography (published in 1924).

topic: Music, Witty, Humorous, Musical Life, Music Teacher

Only grown-up men are scared of women.

- Ernest Lehman

source: "Fictional character: Kurt". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. 1965.

topic: Men, Scared, Sound And Music

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things -- anything and everything I think and feel.

- Maria von Trapp

source: "Fictional character: Maria". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. March 2, 1965.

topic: Thinking, Singing, Anything And Everything, Sound Of Music, Sound And Music

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Motivational, Music, Wisdom, Sounds Of Silence, Jazz And Life

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

topic: Musical, Sound, Music Is, Musical Life, Music Teacher

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

- Billy Joel

source: Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

topic: Music, Healing, Matter, Music Life, Love Heals

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Music, Sweet, Men, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Pablo Picasso

source: "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

topic: Life, Art, Dust, Fine Arts, Jazz And Life

You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love. Narrative, image-making, also sound and music. It's so full that I can't really imagine getting tired of it. Or getting to the point like I feel like I know it.

- Dave McKean

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Getting Tired, Sound And Music

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!

- Stan Freberg

topic: Imagination, Mind, Littles, Sound And Music

Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.

- George Clooney

topic: Fun, Upset, Risk, Film Directing, Sound And Music

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

- Ikue Mori

topic: Art, Thinking, Lunch, Funk, Different Ways

We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.

- Randy Weston

topic: Voice, Sound, Tunes, Sound And Music