Acoustics Quote by Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

— Roman Jakobson

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

— Roman Jakobson

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.

— Z'EV

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

— Charles Ives

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry…

— Pierre Schaeffer

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

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

— Igor Stravinsky

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound…

— John Cage

I think my sound differentiates me from everyone else. I'm able to dip and dabble in other genres, without feeling out of place. Im…

— Iceberg Slim

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

— MC Yogi

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

— Pierre Schaeffer

“Linguistic and musical sound systems illustrate a common theme in the study of music-language relations. On the surface, the two domains are dramatically different.…

— Anonymous