Language Quote by Pierre Schaeffer Download Open image “Sound is the vocabulary of nature.” — Pierre Schaeffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Nature Sound Vocabulary
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
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a… — Bernie Krause Copy Share Image
Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that. — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
“Truthfully some of my favorite music can only be heard outside through the natural melodies that live on the tongues of birds, the howl of the wind or the wolves, and the melodic dissonance of the grasshoppers song. Nature is a grand conductor of sound; fire crackles, river rush and hiss, and whales have haunting and ethereal choruses they sing… — Ayesha Ophelia Copy Share
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
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true. — 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
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
