Soundwave Quotes

Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, believed that sound waves never completely die away, that they persist, fainter and fainter, masked by the day-to-day noise of the world. Marconi thought that if he could only invent a microphone powerful enough, he would be able to listen to ancient times.

Music is life! It's physical emotion-you can touch! It's neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into soundwaves for your ears to swallow.

The noise makes your heart jump, but hearing a sniper bullet is a good thing. The bullet outruns the sound wave; if it’s on target, it kills you before you ever hear the sound of the shot.

Clapping is easily the best example of self-amplification in the world. It sprouts from a single wham to a wave of sound in no time. As soon as someone clapped on hearing Tulsi’s name, an avalanche of applause followed.

Life is all about lows and highs like a sound wave. You will be bored hearing a tune with a single note. Modulations makes the tune beautiful, ups and downs make our life crazy.

I throw the chords at them, I drench them in the soundwaves, I am making time so loud that they have to hear it. I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I’m in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

Radio gave me the soundwaves to love.

The sound waves pulse, like the rings around a thrown stone, spreading out across the rainy night. Music crosses raindrops. The air full of noises riddled with movement. Soundwaves travel through the cabin's open door, and through the gaps in the windows over the waterlogged earth, into all the ears in the woodland. The fox cubs feel it through the earth of their den. The bats in their rafters. In a nest of bracken up on the hillside, a doe pricks her ears towards a running beat too heavy for wolves. The anthill pulses. Damp trees absorb the higher frequencies, swallow the energy into the wetness and wood flesh, so it is the bass that penetrates your head and drums on the drums inside.

For example, we learned that on the toys they always design the vehicle first and then the robot. They design a vehicle then they break it apart. With us, because the robot is the actor and is what we see 90% of the time in the show we told them that we wanted to design the robot first and from there, break it apart and create a vehicle. Obviously we'll know things like Optimus is a truck, Soundwave's going to be some kind of jet, so we know what kind of vehicle it is but we have the robot dictate the shape of the vehicle. That was one of the new things we did on the show that was pretty interesting. -Jose Lopez

One of the first characters I looked at and thought "This guy's kind of different" was Soundwave, and talking to Jeff and Duane [Capizzi, Transformers Prime Head Writer] it was always "What is the character about?" They would say "He's always in the shadows, he never talks. He's very mysterious." I was like "Let's make him like a ninja." You've got this thing where the wings are the arms and when you look at them straight on they're really thin so it's like they kind of disappear but then when he moves then we can play around with the shapes. So it's that kind of stuff that we tried to figure out as we were designing the characters. -Jose Lopez

Soundwave at the beginning- he was one where they were like "The fans are going to kill you once they see this guy." Some stuff you take liberties, other stuff you think "This stuff is too important, we can't mess with it, we'll keep it the same way." Then you have the ultimate say, which is Hasbro. If they want something then straight away you have to do it, even if you think the fans are not going to go for it. -Jose Lopez

We made Soundwave very alien in terms of design details. We wanted to keep him mostly Cybertronian looking. There are no humanoid vehicle parts even though he scanned one. -Jose Lopez

He's the one that Hasbro had concern about, and said that we had to put something from the original version. There are elements around the head that were borrowed from G1 but that's about it." -Jose Lopez on Soundwave

One of the elements I wanted to keep was Laserbeak. He wasn't a cassette tape, but I wanted him to come out of Soundwave's body. -Jose Lopez

sessions of pre-techno soul music that lasted from the late afternoon until the break of dawn. “You have to understand, in the Black community, you had to mix disco and funk,” Howard states. “You couldn't just put on Gloria Gaynor's ‘I Will Survive’ and not do ‘Brick House’ by Commodores.” 34 Delano Smith, a DJ who turned to producing in the mid-’90s, was at the heart of Detroit's progressive scene as part of the Soundwave crew, with Carl Martin and Avon McDaniel of the social club Next Phase. “I think we were all inspired by disco music. A lot of the radio stations completely changed their format and played disco music day and night,” Smith said, observing the music industry's transition from professional