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“man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.”

Men Found Sound Imagination Society Sight Senses Confusion Tendencies Irrepressible Sight And Sound

Author:Arthur Koestler

“How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?”

Reading Sound Imagination Music Musician Musical Score Strings Flutes Oboes

Book:Consciousness Explained

Source: Consciousness Explained

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

Mind Littles Sound Imagination Sound And Music

Author:Stan Freberg

“Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.”

Thinking Want Suffering Sports Sound Voice Imagination Poor Existence Depends Fishes Fancy Convenient Sufferers Sportsman Anglers

Book:Leigh Hunt's London Journal

Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal

“Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.”

Knows World Faces Sound Imagination Challenges Moral Environmental Climate Change Phrases Our World Emergencies Gore

Author:Al Gore

“It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.”

Self Helping Reality Seems Lasts Sound Imagination Doubt Our Lives Expression Pressure Analysis No Doubt Preservation Self Preservation

Book:The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

“It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.”

World Persons Sound Imagination Sight Outrun Sight And Sound

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

“The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.”

Humans May Made Character Sound Imagination Exercise Virtuous Cultivation

Author:John Abercrombie

“The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.”

Sound Imagination Wise Six Guitar Incredibles Range Guts Strings Hendrix

Author:Jimmy Page

“Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.”

Want Made Shows Felt Sound Imagination Wall Internet Albums Active Video Engaged Tickets Posters Sensory Overload

Author:Q-Tip

“It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.”

Use Inspiration Sound Imagination Animal Speech Tools Constructs

Author:Louise J. Kaplan