Noise

Famous quotes containing the word noise:

“I’ve almost gained my heav’nly home; My spirit loudly sings;
The holy ones behold they come, I hear the noise of wings.
O come, angel band, Come and around me stand.
O bear me away on your snowy wings, To my immortal home.”
—T. Haskell, minister and hymn-writer. Published in Christian Harmony. “Angel Band,” l. 5-8.

“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)

“Sweet bird, that shunn’st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!”
—John Milton (1608–1674)