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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

— Roman Jakobson

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✓Similar Perspectives

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

— Roman Jakobson

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

— Roman Jakobson

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

— Pierre Schaeffer

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

— Tyga

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

— George Crumb

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

— Joe Perry

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

— Stephen Hopkins

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

— Taylor Dayne

✗Opposing Perspectives

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

— Pierre Schaeffer

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

— Roman Jakobson