Bases Quote by John Cage

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

— Roman Jakobson

There's never a sound that I think I can't use in my music.

— Rosalia

For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out…

— Annea Lockwood

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape…

— Stephen Mallinder

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

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but…

— Eduard Hanslick

Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is…

— Gary Rydstrom

The purpose of sound is silence.

— Jill Purce

The sound changes from day to day, and even from moment to moment. Do not underestimate the power of music.

— McChristian Pascual Virgilio

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

I don't think you can contrive any sound.

— George Shearing

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

— Krystian Zimerman