115 Audio Quotes

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Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience. — Casey Kasem

Sound is the vocabulary of nature. — Pierre Schaeffer

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment. — Alan Parsons

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao Tzu

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao Tzu

Music is the shorthand of emotion. — Leo Tolstoy

Music is the soul of language. - Max Heindel

Music is the soul of language. — Max Heindel

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers. — Sayings

Music gives color to the air of the moment. — Karl Lagerfeld

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. — Robert Bresson

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting. — Hans Zimmer

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Andersen

Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. — Peggy Noonan

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too. - Lou Gramm

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too. — Lou Gramm

Short Audio Quotes

  • Reading is more efficient when at rest. Audio is more efficient when in motion. — Naval Ravikant
  • If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part. — Eric San
  • In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio. — Juice Newton
  • The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. — David Boies
  • Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise. — David Sedaris
  • Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper — Rob Halford
  • One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy. — Alex Blumberg
  • I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions. — Tom Waits
  • When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. — Dave Grohl
  • Hey, I wasn’t a weirdo. I was in the audio-visual club. — D'arcy Wretzky

Audio Image Quotes

Audio Books Quotes

It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon. — Blair Underwood

There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good. — Scotty Moore

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books. — David Sedaris

Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching. — Robin Sharma

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music. — Stephen King

I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn't give it to you, because I have some great things on it. — Robin Sharma

I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms. — Nathan Lowell

My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them. — Nathan Lowell

Glenn and I were listening to a radio show in the car, and he said, "Glass Eye Pix should do radio plays." I loved the idea of working in a different medium. We've made comics, books, movies, video games, models, advent calendars, why wouldn't we try audio plays? — Larry Fessenden

Whether I'm on the road or at home, I get a great deal done on elliptical machines. I use my iPad to conquer my email inbox, listen to audio books, use my Voxer Walkie Talkie app, and read through documents. — Amy Jo Martin

Audio Visual Quotes

Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field. — W. J. T. Mitchell

I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group. — Gary Gygax

For me and my films I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters. — James Wan

I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective. — Adrian Younge

If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing! — Mallika Sherawat

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic. — Peter Godfrey-Smith

I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me. — Roger Ebert

I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people. — Al Jourgensen

Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs also "train" us in ways of focusing on targets, ways of regarding suffering and loss. — Judith Butler

My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to computers through electrodes, put me in a comfortable lounge chair, put an eye pillow over my face, slipped speakers onto my head and played an audio guided visualization. — Brad Willis

Audio Recording Quotes

Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric. — Jon Foreman

I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing. — Adam Young

We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper. — Hannah Hart

Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations. — Chris Hegedus

One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel to that there's been a revolution in boutique audio companies making excellent gear. — John Vanderslice

Video Quotes

Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring — Seymour Papert

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it. — Barack Obama

I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen — India.Arie

I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race. — Usain Bolt

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music. — Chance the Rapper

I sit down and watch videos. I take notes. That's when that inspiration comes - the moment that makes sense of my profession. The instant I know, for sure, that I've got it. I know how to win. It's the moment that my job becomes truly meaningful. — Pep Guardiola

I don't watch penalties in my hotel room. I watch naughty videos — Gianluigi Buffon

I've always just wanted to make videos for a living, and I've been able to do that. — MrBeast

Music is something I've always been interested in and incorporated into my videos. — Jake Paul

When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within — Pipilotti Rist

Multimedia Quotes

Multimedia scares me off. - Michael Nesmith

Multimedia scares me off. — Michael Nesmith

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms. — Wole Soyinka

I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content. — Ryan Seacrest

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so. — Alan Dean Foster

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative. — Fred Ritchin

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense. — Niklas Zennstrom

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. — Jessica Hagedorn

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file. — DJ Spooky

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language. — Anita Sarkeesian

The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors. — Edward Tenner

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More Audio Quotes

There is a very quickly growing hot pot patchwork of AI-powered tools for all of image, video, audio generation, upsampling, post-processing, control-netting, voice cloning, lip syncing, etc etc. — Andrej Karpathy

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with. — Talib Kweli

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books. — Jon Scieszka

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language. — Mark Pagel

To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying! — Skrillex

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys. — Rick Moranis

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it. — Thomas Dolby

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance. — Tony Visconti

But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets. — David Milne

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. — Jim C. Walton

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station. — Jon Postel

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files. — Shawn Fanning

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened. — Thomas Dolby

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. — Thomas Dolby

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He was able to indulge in his hobbies... He was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes for release to the wider world. — Peter Bergen

There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old. — Rachel Maddow

Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level. — Honor Harger

Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. — Helen Thomas

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side. — Tim Hecker

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