Luigi Russolo Quotes

#1. My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.

Mark Vonnegut

#2. Hey, flow charts are one thing, spatial skills another.

Cherise Sinclair

#3. I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate
and volatile
I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

Joanne Harris

#4. I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

Yingluck Shinawatra

#5. I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Charles Darwin

#6. If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess

Ann Aguirre

#7. But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy - a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.

Thomas Hardy

#8. As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

Luigi Russolo

#9. We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.

Luigi Russolo

#10. And the woman in the vegetable shop, she oppresses me all the time.

Terry Pratchett

#11. In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

Luigi Russolo

#12. God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge.

Jason Gray

#13. Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.

Luigi Russolo

#14. If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.

Sahara Sanders