Bernie Krause Quotes

#1. earthquake P-waves had reportedly been made with microphones

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#2. The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

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#3. Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Philip K. Dick

#4. With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

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#5. A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,

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#6. Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

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#7. The people who love you will guide you like bright lights into the other worlds.

Josephine Angelini

#8. The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.

Tara Parker-Pope

#9. As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

Lauryn Hill

#10. Slowly the pattern of our days grew, and shaped itself into a happy life.

Shirley Jackson

#11. If I wasn't before, I'm ruined for life. Hopelessly. In. Love. The girl is it for me. Yeah, ruined. Happily ruined, standing smack dab in the middle of the ice cream aisle.

Mia Sheridan

#12. the comparative framework of sounds or tones that make up a musical scale. So while frequency is a physical property of sound - it's a measurement of the number of cycles per second of a sound wave - pitch refers to what we hear. The chromatic scale,

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#13. My heart was divided for so long. Now I'm able to give you every part of me. You deserve nothing less.

Faith Sullivan

#14. Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

Bernie Krause