"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."

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Source : Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

Luigi Russolo

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“Anything less than your best dishonors God”
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“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.”
“Here sir, the people govern.”
“Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.”
“And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.”

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