Top 195 Distortion Quotes & Sayings

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain.

I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion.

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome called Reality Distortion Field. It's kind of like drugs, only you can't come back from it. Reality Distortion is almost a permanent condition. Things come in and they go out: Presto, chango! To a certain extent, I did that with myself. As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?

I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as a means of attracting funds.

I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

In fact, I'm happy to go on record as saying that the ability to create a reality distortion field is right up there alongside optimism as an entrepreneur's most valuable weapon.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells.

It's amazing. It's actually build from old Siemens Telefunken transistors from the 60ties. There is like 10 in there. It's the most powerful distortion you can have. It does not only do distortion, it does so many weird things. You can't control it, it's sound different all the time. But it's an endless source for fantastic sounds. For example the track "Transit" is entirely made with this box. You have to put the guitar sound in. It's like a pedal.

We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want a big sound. We do use some guitar effects, distortion and delay. Playing cello with distortion sounds so good.

In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or flattened out. The danger, especially of distortion, is particularly great in the case of orgonomy. We must be scientific, we cannot be political in these matters. And I personally declare that I will be the first to fight with all my strength, with whatever I've got against such a distortion of our principles.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

It is the universe where all rock players live- we all use distortion, overdrive, gain and saturation. I call it 'fuzz.'

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

A cousin of mine was a graphic designer, and he took me as a kid to see Flesh for Lulu and Social Distortion in 1988 in Chicago.

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

I really like iZotope Trash, which is a great plug-in for distortion, as is Ohmicide, which I love. It's an absolutely crazy multiband distortion, compression, EQ and filter, which pretty much lets you do anything.

You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it, we see it as a distortion of space. And space is enormously stiff. You can't squish it; you can't change its dimensions so easily.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.

I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion.

The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.