Acoustics Quote by Marshall McLuhan

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

— Eqbal Ahmad

“The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of…

— Peter Redgrove

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding…

— Henry David Thoreau

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I…

— Bernie Krause

Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban…

— Carole Katchen

The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.

— Celia Thaxter

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it…

— Ben Okri

So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you just want…

— DJ Spooky

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion...

— Marshall McLuhan

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people…

— George Eliot

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind…

— Erich Fromm