Quote by Michael Finkel

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

— Joan Baez

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

— Merzbow

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

— Raymond Loewy

For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find…

— Christian Fennesz

It's dangerous to generalise about sound because many of its effects work through association. These can be universal: we all instinctively associate any sudden,…

— Julian Treasure

“Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture,…

— Milan Kundera

“It is necessary to protect precious silence from all parasitical noise. The noise of our “ego”, which never stops claiming its rights, plunging us…

— Robert Sarah

noise is a pollution.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose…

— Joan Baez

“Unwanted noise is bad; inescapable noise is terrible.”

— Mike Goldsmith

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

— A. J. Jacobs

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

— William H. Stewart