81 Quotes by Julian Treasure

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

Music is the most powerful sound there is, often inappropriately deployed. It's powerful for two reasons: you recognize it fast, and you associate it very powerfully.

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

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.

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

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

My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that there is profit in it.

It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's.

Most of us walk around with our ears switched off because so much noise is unpleasant.