The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous. Pierre Schaeffer Read Quote
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. Pierre Schaeffer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward. Pierre Schaeffer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true. Pierre Schaeffer Read Quote
