Cacophony Quotations

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.