Dangerous Quotes by Pierre Schaeffer

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

— Pierre Schaeffer

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians…

— Pierre Schaeffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the…

— Pierre Schaeffer

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same,…

— Pierre Schaeffer

Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and…

— Pierre Schaeffer

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is…

— Pierre Schaeffer

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

— Pierre Schaeffer

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

— Pierre Schaeffer

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

— Pierre Schaeffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

— Pierre Schaeffer

The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.

— Pierre Schaeffer

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy…

— Pierre Schaeffer