"The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning."

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Source : R. Murray Schafer (1993). “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

R. Murray Schafer

#Hands Quotes #Secret Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.”
“How do you look when I'm sober?”
“Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.”
“To live in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom, but I defend my freedom. And that comes with the courage to say what you think, even if sometimes others don't share those views.”
“I'm a lucky, lucky man. I mean, the people I surround myself with are so inspiration. They're so motivational and they're so dynamic and positive. You really can't stop that positive force when everything and everyone around you is so positive.”
“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.”

Source : Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”
“I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's not paycheck at the end; it's more of a "whatever is left over" kind of situation. Also, it keeps me from thinking about my creativity as a business, which it is not. It should remain pure; that's one of the reasons I made music in the first place.”
“Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.”

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