Walter Murch Quotes

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

Walter Murch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1943

Topics

PerspectivePeopleListeningWorld

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

John Boyd Orr

KnowledgeSocietyNewCivilization

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

Jermain Defoe

FamilyAgeFootballPeopleYouLose

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

Andrew Sean Greer

ThinkPlaceUnderstandFictionGet

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

Angela Duckworth

LifeExperienceMaturityBecomeMore

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Ang Lee

GreatObstaclesThinkRomanceNeeds

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Karr

ChangeMoreSameThings

Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.

Michael Sata

TimeLongLong TimeAfricaWest

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.

Lorraine Hansberry

ManWorldProblemOppressionWhich

I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.

Julia Holter

LookingReadingInternetPhoneLike

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.

Johnny Weir

ChangeGreatJobManI AmThink

Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

Donald Hall

WorkGoodFeel GoodFeelSometimes

My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.

Brandi Carlile

WifeFurnitureHouseNextOutUp

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