Decay Quote by David Toop Download Open image “Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay” — David Toop ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decay Emergence Inspirational Sound States
It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that… — Paul Foster Case Copy Share
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo.… — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
“We do not realize the sound the world makes-unless of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning… — David Toop Copy Share Image
The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement Group artist. I was completely broke at that time, and he said to me, "Come and do some teaching" - he was head of department at Maidstone College of Art. And I went and did a couple of… — David Toop Copy Share
I guess we all had that work ethic. None of us were rock stars, so if you had time in a studio, it was… — David Toop Copy Share Image
At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend… — David Toop Copy Share Image
One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I think I sent one [book] to Brian Eno. I don't know how I got to know his address, but I sent one to him. He called me up and he said, "I really like the book, and I'm starting a new label, would you liked to do something?" It was a tricky situation for me, because I've always had… — David Toop Copy Share
There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with… — David Toop Copy Share Image
The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do. — David Toop Copy Share Image
I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're not too… — David Toop Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run… — Clive Barker Copy Share
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It… — Aristotle Copy Share
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust and scaling paint. They pushed into the cab and he blew away the ash from the engineer's seat and put the boy at the controls. The controls were very simple. Little to do but push the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the… — William Allen White Copy Share
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