Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I often go into shops and ask them to turn the music down. "

Julian Treasure

Related Quotes:

" Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can't get absolute silence, go for quiet; that's absolutely fine. "

Julian Treasure

" Music is made to be listened to, so you immediately have an issue where you're playing it in the background like wallpaper. Music doesn't want to behave like that. "

Julian Treasure

" Not even a woman cannot understand two people talking at the same time. "

Julian Treasure

" The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say 'I love you.' And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them. "

Julian Treasure

" The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships. "

Julian Treasure

" Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now that's something I fall short of on a daily basis. "

Julian Treasure

" You or I never buy an Intel product explicitly, and yet their sonic logo is far better known and more powerful than its visual equivalent. It's probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars. "

Julian Treasure

" I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not? "

Julian Treasure

" Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time. "

Julian Treasure

" Most people think it's a linear relationship: I speak, you listen. Actually, it's a circle, because the way you listen affects how I speak, and the way I speak affects the way you listen. "

Julian Treasure

" There are just huge benefits to come from designing for the ears in our health care. "

Julian Treasure

" If we're not listened to, then that doesn't create a desire inside us to listen to others. Societally, we don't value it. "

Julian Treasure

" If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself. "

Julian Treasure

" This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being listened to by their parents. "

Julian Treasure

" If we teach our children how to listen properly to the world - and especially to each other - they will understand the consequences of their own sound and be far more responsible in making it. "

Julian Treasure

" Unlike so many other sounds, there's no maximum exposure to birdsong. "

Julian Treasure

" If you put music on top of noise, it's like putting icing on top of mud; it might look like a cake, but it doesn't taste like one. "

Julian Treasure

" Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to pick it up from home or from peers informally. "

Julian Treasure

" A great deal of our work involves switching music off. "

Julian Treasure

" By starting to pay attention to our natural soundscapes, businesses can reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, and increase profits. "

Julian Treasure

" People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds stop singing that people need to worry. "

Julian Treasure

" It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters. "

Julian Treasure

" We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your inner voice that helps you write. "

Julian Treasure

" People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise. "

Julian Treasure

" We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority. "

Julian Treasure

" I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future. "

Julian Treasure

" Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement. "

Julian Treasure

" Sound is complex; there are many countervailing influences. It can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have to eat it and see what happens. "

Julian Treasure

" In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. "

Julian Treasure

" If you're surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit. "

Julian Treasure