Decibel Phrases

Phrases

• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As sound as a bell
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Break the sound barrier
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Ear for music
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• For crying out loud
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In love with the sound of your own voice
• Let's face the music and dance
• Loud and clear
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• Loud mouth
• Loud mouthed
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)
• Music to my ears

• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Out loud
• Popular music
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Safe and sound
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• Say it loud and say it proud
• Sound bite
• Sound effect
• Sound off at
• Sound out
• Sound the alarm
• Surround sound
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Mersey sound
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The Sound Of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel song)
• The West Coast Sound (Shelly Manne song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The music of the spheres
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Wired for sound
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• World music