Music-history Quote by Geoffrey O'Brien

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest…

— Cornel West

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

— Toru Takemitsu

“Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or not we…

— A.A. Patawaran

“The life of matter can be embraced only by an orchestral style, at once polychromatic, polyphonic, and polymorphous, by means of the most extensive…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

— Pierre Schaeffer

“Sounds—possibly musical—heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being.”

— H. P. Lovecraft

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

“Music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from…

— Roger Scruton

Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe!…

— R. Murray Schafer

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

— David Toop

music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of…

— Baroness Orczy

When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads…

— Bernard Parmegiani