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Noise In General

"A 'plainly audible' standard has been applied in numerous jurisdictions across the United States, and this standard has been held to be neither vague nor overbroad (State v. Ewing, 914 P.2d 549, Haw. 1996)."
- The Noise Consultancy, noise enforcement and code compliance experts

"Noise-induced hearing loss is so serious and widespread that it now has its own acronym in the medical and workplace literature: NIHL."
- Dr. Bart Kosko, author of Noise (2006)
[NIHL = Noise-induced hearing loss]

"Since 1960, average daytime hospital sound levels have risen from 57 decibels to 72 dB, while average nighttime levels have jumped from 42 to 60 dB -- all far exceeding the World Health Organization’s recommendation of 35 dB as a top measure for soundlevels in patient rooms."
- The Herman Miller Company

"Is it up to the builder to make sure that it's soundproof? No. It's up to the builder to make sure that it's minimum code requirement."
- Mike Holmes, host of HGTV Canada's "Holmes on Homes"

"Even ear-safe sound levels can cause nonauditory health effects if they chronically interfere with recreational activities such as sleep and relaxation, if they disturb communication and speech intelligibility, or if they interfere with mental tasks that require a high degree of attention and concentration (Evans and Lepore 1993)."
- Dr. Wolfgang Babisch, Senior Research Officer at the German Federal Environmental Agency and Member of the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise

"Installing brighter lights, cutting down on the decibels, and having more employees on hand are ways to reduce medication errors, according to Elizabeth Flynn, Ph.D., R.Ph., associate research professor, center of pharmacy operations and design, department of pharmacy care systems, at the pharmacy school [of Auburn University]."
- Drug Topics Magazine, November, 2002 Issue

"Noise can be so deleterious, so ruinous, and cause such visceral reactions, that the term 'noise pollution' can seem quite innocuous."
- The Daily Decibel

"Just One Word: Earplugs."
- What you might hear in a modern-day version of the film "The Graduate"

Music

". . . emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and various kinds of music based on the various modes, may be distinguished by their effects on character — one, for example, working in the direction of melancholy, another of effeminacy, one encouraging abandonment, another self-control, another enthusiasm, and so on through the series."
- Aristotle, from his Poetics

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
- Ludwig von Beethoven

"Music can play a positive role in moral development by creating sensual attractions to goodness, or it can play a destructive role by setting children on a temperamental path that leads away from virtue."
- Dr. William Kilpatrick, from Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong

Would anyone assert that "(You Ain’t Nothin' but a) Hound Dog" has the same "soul" as Gregorian chant? The one inspires to prayer and contemplation, the other to shouting and stamping. Not that there’s anything wrong with shouting and stamping once in a while, but children these days tend to be raised almost exclusively on that sort of music. Besides, they don’t need much incentive to shout, stamp, whine, and demand. They do these things naturally. Why should we want music that validates and confirms such juvenile states? Shouldn’t children be exposed to other states of soul?"
- Dr. William Kilpatrick, from Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong

"The ways of poetry and music are not changed anywhere without change in the most important laws of the city." So wrote Plato in the Republic (4.424c). Music, for Plato, was not a neutral amusement. It could express and encourage virtue—nobility, dignity, temperance, chastity. But it could also express and encourage vice—sensuality, belligerence, indiscipline.
- Dr. Roger Scruton
Research professor at the Institute for Psychological Sciences in Washington D.C., and member of the advisory board of the Catholic Education Resource Center.

"There is plenty of tuneful popular music, and plenty of popular music with which one can sing along and to which one can dance in sociable ways. All this is obvious. Yet there is growing, within pop, another kind of practice altogether, one in which the movement is no longer contained in the musical line but exported to a place outside it, to a center of pulsation that demands not that you listen but that you submit. If you do submit, the moral qualities of the music vanish behind the excitement; if you listen, however, and listen critically as I have been suggesting, you will discern those moral qualities."
- Dr. Roger Scruton

"I don't listen to a lot of 'Rap'. One reason is, it isn't terribly relaxing, rumor has it."
- Jim Schweda, KUSC Radio, University of Southern California

"You are, in effect, hypnotised by this thing, and there is no question but that it produces addiction."
- Dame Gillian Weir, internationally-known, world-renowned organist, on the high number of beats per minute of much modern-day music

"Take it from a brain guy. In 20 years of research, I still cannot affect a person's state of mind the way that one single song can."
- Dr. Richard Pellegrino, Arkansas, in an article in Billboard Magazine

"A growing body of research indicates [that dogs] bark less and suffer fewer anxiety attacks when listening to Bach, Schubert and Chopin."
- The Riverside County Press-Enterprise

"Heavy metal music (played by the band Metallica) caused canine agitation."
- Through A Dog's Ear, by Joshua Leeds and Susan Wagner
(book link)

Motorcycles and Exhaust Systems

"Motorcycles are fine. Their riders simply need to obey the law."
- Grant Millin, writer

"Pipe Down. Not everyone enjoys the sound of loud pipes. Be considerate of others, especially in quiet neighborhoods and at night."
- The Motorcycle Safety Foundation

"We need to lead by example and convey the that it is totally unacceptable to ride an obnoxiously loud machine. Next, we have to stop installing unmuffled exhaust systems on our bikes."
- AMA CEO Rob Dingman, as quoted in Road Racing World

"Obnoxiously loud bikes and OHVs are not acceptable."
- AMA CEO Rob Dingman, as quoted in Motorcycle Daily

"Loud pipes risk rights."
- Rick Gray, former head of the AMA

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