Top 34 Pierre Schaeffer Quotes
#2. People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.
Pierre Schaeffer
#3. Sound is the vocabulary of nature ... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary ... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.
Pierre Schaeffer
#4. In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.
Rory McCann
#5. People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
Pierre Schaeffer
#6. 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 is extraordinarily dangerous.
Pierre Schaeffer
#7. 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
#8. Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?
Pierre Schaeffer
#9. The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.
Pierre Schaeffer
#10. There's this thing that you're not meant to have too many children - for global warming, it's bad. But I know lots of crappy people, and I would rather that good people have lots of kids and outnumber the baddies.
Domhnall Gleeson
#11. I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.
Britt Robertson
#12. So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.
Pythagoras
#14. 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
#15. Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.
Pierre Schaeffer
#16. First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
Pierre Schaeffer
#17. You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
Coco Chanel
#18. The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
Pierre Schaeffer
#19. The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
Pierre Schaeffer
#20. Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
Pierre Schaeffer
#21. In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
Pierre Schaeffer
#22. I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.
Pierre Schaeffer
#24. The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
Pierre Schaeffer
#25. We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.
Simon Sinek
#26. Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
C. K. Prahalad
#27. Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Pierre Schaeffer
#28. The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
Pierre Schaeffer
#29. Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.
Pierre Schaeffer
#30. 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 doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.
Pierre Schaeffer
#31. Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.
Pierre Schaeffer
#32. By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
W. Somerset Maugham
#33. I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.
Miles Davis
#34. Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.
Jason Kidd
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