"Sound is the vocabulary of nature."

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Source : Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete, vol. 2, n° 1, 1987.

Pierre Schaeffer

#Vocabulary Quotes #Sound Quotes #Corny Quotes

“I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”
“I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.”
“I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.”
“I'm not a big fan of plastic surgery. Because it looks like you had plastic surgery.”
“Everything in your dream means exactly what you think it means.”
“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance”
“What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.”

Source : Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.5, Delmarva Publications, Inc.
“The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular world influenced by Christianity must face the idea that it may not be as attractive as it once was. The leaders of other faiths might also be well-advised to admonish their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others.”

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