“In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.” —Mickey Hart
Skipping tracks
Skittering static
Snapping cracks
I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it’s so affecting that I can’t recover from it —SZA
Skimming walls
Smooth as luges run
Schussing ice
Music is the silence between the notes —Claude Debussy
Sideswiping
Sonic waves of wow
Magnetic
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway —Italo Calvino
Sans stylus
Gone reviews of noise
Aesthetics
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man —E. M. Forster
Its paintbrush
Colors classical
Long playing
A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music —Ilaiyaraaja
Its pencil
Inscribes eccentric
Sage sayings
The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds —Jean-Michel Jarre
Vinyl noise
Timbre of master’s voice
Critic’s choice
I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds —Dizzy Gillespie
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Thank you. Music can calm the soul, stimulate creation…and sometimes lead to chaos
Merci Terry. Good to hear from you. May music calm the chaos, too. To glory and freedom not yet perished.
The music of silence
The music of notes
Weave to make music
Enjoyable post. Makes me miss my turntable.
Your lovely poem is going round on my turntable with no trouble. 🙂
love this with my current learning – if you like have a look at my recent post on making sense – I love the thinking of the German Jesuit philosopher you find in there and his way of presenting 😉