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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise."

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Noah Cicero Author
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"When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist."

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John Cage Composer, Musician
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"Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating."

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
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"Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately."

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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist
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"In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live."

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"There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise."

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