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You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Sep 29, 2025
Only grown-up men are scared of women.
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
The man that hath no music in himself
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.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
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.
I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.
There is music in all things, if men had ears.
Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.
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.
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.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
The Hills are alive with the sound of CRAP!
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.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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.
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.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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.
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.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Music gives a soul to the universe.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
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.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
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.
The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Where words fail, music speaks.