Book Quote by DJ Spooky

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds

— Marshall McLuhan

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which…

— Roman Jakobson

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

— Jasper Fforde

Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.

— Benjamin Hoff

“We hear speech as a string of separate words, but unlike the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it, a…

— Steven Pinker

Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join…

— L. Sprague de Camp

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

— Anonymous

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

— Brian Chippendale

I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them…

— Julia Kent

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

— Pierre Schaeffer

“Why the words are called the way they are? Why certain sounds represent certain words, with their own meaning?”

— Kimberly Loskov

In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are…

— Steven Pinker