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I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process. -- Grimes
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it -- Thurston Moore
I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise. -- George Gershwin
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. -- Samuel Johnson
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica. -- Thomas Beecham
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise. -- Freddie Mercury
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. -- Carl Jung
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise. -- Jose Bergamin
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music. -- Lou Reed
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. -- Thomas Beecham
One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise. -- Henry Rollins
The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes. -- Richard Baker
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me. -- Hugh Hopper
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should. -- Dan Hill
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man. -- Fritz Lang
Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating. -- John Lydon
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent. -- Graydon Carter
I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears. -- Rachel Nichols
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. -- Clyde Tombaugh
With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a lot of Hollywood-style percussion or brass, because that's the only thing that will cut through. -- Steven Price
Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling. -- Christian Louboutin
In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine. -- Sarah McLachlan
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...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence. -- A.P.
I frequently hear music in the heart of noise. -- George Gershwin
You cannot hear music and noise at the same time. -- Henry David Thoreau
why something and not nothing? why music and not noise? -- Don DeLillo
Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind. -- Paul Hindemith
Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica. -- Thomas Beecham
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form. -- Russell Simmons
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise. -- Bill Murray
To sulk is to create a noise; to smile is to create a music. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me. -- Merzbow
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise. -- Vangelis
He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things. -- Vikram Sarabhai
Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise -- Derrick May
Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead. -- Rachel Van Dyken
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. -- Rumi
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. -- Ambrose Bierce
John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated. -- Brian Eno
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live. -- Ralph Ellison
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information. -- Quentin Crisp
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music. -- Karl Kraus
Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. .. -- Yann Martel
Every sex noise can be converted into a note and frozen in a can of soda. Ask me about menstruation music today! -- Jarod Kintz
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. -- Robert Fripp
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. -- Yann Martel
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. -- Yann Martel
For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore. -- Christian Fennesz
A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. -- Megha Khare
It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. -- Thomas Beecham
The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams. -- Richard Flanagan
I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face. -- Boyd Rice
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise. -- Sayyid Qutb
There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had -- Alan Hollinghurst
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos. -- Jack Gilbert

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