I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite…

“Cheesecake packs a sensual wallop unlike anything in the natural world because it is a brew of megadoses of agreeable stimuli which we concocted…

— Steven Pinker

“Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and the snap…

— L.M. Montgomery

What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians…

— Chris Milk

It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then…

— Oliver Sacks

The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that…

— Edward Albee

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

— Florence Welch

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and…

— Sylvester Stallone

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

— Ray Kurzweil

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me…

— Erica Jong

We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in…

— Antonio Damasio

I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say,…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’ if you…

— Henry Miller

I am not surprised that the president of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised Secretary Clinton asked, "What difference…

— Trey Gowdy

There are people who seem to be on the verge of going either way, and something kicks in to support either the visual or…

— Brian Chippendale

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I…

— Joan Halifax