Comprehensive Quote by R. Murray Schafer

Every orchestra has its own sound.

— Simon Rattle

Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

— Simon Rattle

Music is organized sound.

— Edgard Varese

Sound is everything to a musician.

— John Densmore

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

— Chick Corea

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds…

— Mitch Albom

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial…

— Michael Jackson

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

— John Cage

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

— Charles Ives

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

The wonderful thing about sound is that it is invitational, so ultimately each person is going to find their own relation to the material.

— Lawrence English