Form Quote by Annea Lockwood

Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing…

— Paulo Coelho

A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for…

— John Cage

In this world, everything has a pulse or a vibration. This sound is unique to each living or non-living thing and in itself creates…

— Mike Oldfield

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft…

— T. S. Eliot

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound…

— John Cage

I really like the idea of music when it has form and then sort of loses its form, or becomes noise, and then comes…

— Kevin Huizenga

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry…

— Pierre Schaeffer

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We…

— Joachim-Ernst Berendt

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape,…

— Edgard Varese

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by…

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects…

— George Crumb