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Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

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A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

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His feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters.

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They say gravity is the centre of attraction ; I rather think that noise is. Nothing so soon assembles the inhabitants of a house as a loud and sudden noise:

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Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

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Could we not imagine that noise...is itself nothing more than the sum of a multitude of different sounds which are being heard simultaneously?

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If a tree falls in a forest, and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a noise?

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Now I will do nothing but listen,

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A thousand trills and quivering sounds And at a distance die.

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A noise like of a hidden brook Singeth a quiet tune.

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By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

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I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives'Twixt it and silence.

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Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

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And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.

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Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds,Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.

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Their rising all at once was as the soundOf thunder heard remote.

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To all proportioned terms he must dispenseAnd make the sound a picture of the sense.

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The murmur that springsFrom the growing of grass.

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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

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The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.

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What's the business,The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!

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Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

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My eyes are dim with childish tears, Which in those days I heard.

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