Music is designed to be listened to, so it's calling for attention all the time, syphoning off our very limited auditory bandwidth and elbowing aside our ability to listen to the voice in our head we need when we're doing… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your… — Julian Treasure Copy Share
People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds… — Julian Treasure Copy Share
In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. — Julian Treasure Copy Share
You or I never buy an Intel product explicitly, and yet their sonic logo is far better known and more powerful than its visual… — Julian Treasure Copy Share
If you're surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit. — Julian Treasure Copy Share
The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen… — Julian Treasure Copy Share
People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad… — Julian Treasure Copy Share
I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future. — Julian Treasure Copy Share
In a room full of 60 to 70 people which is open plan and absolutely quiet, it's very intimidating to make a phone call.… — Julian Treasure Copy Share
When you hear a child's voice, it will have that immediate effect of putting you in mind of looking after children. — Julian Treasure Copy Share
My mother, in the last years of her life, became very negative, and it's hard to listen. I remember one day, I said to… — Julian Treasure Copy Share
A sonic logo on its own isn't going to do very much. We get frustrated with smaller brands who come to us and say,… — Julian Treasure Copy Share
Men tend to listen in what I call a reductive way, which is to say for a point, for a solution. You know, we… — Julian Treasure Copy Share
I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on. — Julian Treasure Copy Share
I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not? — Julian Treasure Copy Share
