Quote by Pierre Schaeffer Download Open image “Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.” — Pierre Schaeffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
We like no noise unless we make it ourselves. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same,… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
