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" 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. "

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" Sound affects us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively, and behaviorally all the time. The sound around us is affecting us even though we're not conscious of it. "

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Time

" As parents, we tend to be in Tell rather than Listen mode. "

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

" We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes. "

" It's an interesting door opening, this use of sonic signalling - using sound to alert us in a more subtle way than a beep. "

" Sadly, piped music in so many public spaces is often just more noise. Rarely is it carefully designed to enhance our experience; much more likely it is there because retailers have subscribed to an incorrect view that music makes people spend more. "

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Experience

" A sonic logo on its own isn't going to do very much. We get frustrated with smaller brands who come to us and say, 'We need a bing-bong'. You just can't encapsulate a brand for £500 in a three-second sound. It doesn't work. "

" If you're listening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. It's good for your health and for your productivity. If we all do that, we move to a state that I like to think will be sound living in the world. "

" Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned. "

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Changes

Moods

" 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. "

" I love reading other people's papers on the Tube. "

" 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. "

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

" Someone else's paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on to someone else to reinvigorate it. "

" I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on. "

" 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. "

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You

Eat

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

" When you hear a child's voice, it will have that immediate effect of putting you in mind of looking after children. "

" Retailers don't think about why they have music. There are a number of issues. It can be very powerful in the right place, where it is played appropriately. "

" My mother, in the last years of her life, became very negative, and it's hard to listen. I remember one day, I said to her, 'It's October 1 today,' and she said, 'I know, isn't it dreadful?' It's hard to listen when somebody's that negative. "

" 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. "

" It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes. "

" It's dangerous to generalise about sound because many of its effects work through association. These can be universal: we all instinctively associate any sudden, unexpected noise with danger and react with a release of fight/flight hormones, while most people find sounds like gentle rainfall or birdsong calming and reassuring. "

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

" There's a little bit of protocol in the real world which is quite important. If you speak to me, we understand that we've entered into a social contract. But sound that you haven't given permission to receive is noise, and generally unwelcome. "

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Real

Important

" 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. "

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

" The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time. "

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Listening

Noise

" 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. "

" I've heard many reports of police attending scenes of domestic violence where they've had to turn off music and televisions and radios. Noise tends to drive us a bit crazy. "