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“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.”

Thinking Sound Emotion Audience Emotional Type Essentials Musician Wave Engineers Organize Sound Waves

Author:Stefon Harris

“Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.”

Dies Universe Sound Forever Eternity Wave Sentences Circles Useless Immortality Immortal Sound Waves

Book:The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Source: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

“There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.”

Sound Ocean Wave Patterns Rhythm Breathing Plus Surfing Similarity Ocean Wave Sound Waves

Author:Jon Foreman

“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.”

“Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.”

Light Sound Television Wave Radio Scary Crystals Minerals Amplify Sound Waves Light Waves

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.”

Different Feelings Body Happens Sound Computer Happenings Wave Vinyl Physiology Different Feelings Sound Waves

Author:Beck

“Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.”

World Light Fall Father Sound Voice Water Clear Air Stones Moved Notes Wave Surface Invisible Grass Sunlight Pins Fluid Gravel Sound Waves

Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?”

Spirit Energy Sound Emotion Music Is Ears Wave Boring Neon Music Is Life Sound Waves

Book:Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition

Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition

“Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.”

Firsts Ends Hands Eye Sound Beats Mouths Ears Wave Teeth Fists Deaf Incessantly Great Divorce Sound Waves

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.”

Doe Use Sound Wave Myth Wireless Sound Waves

Author:Nikola Tesla