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Pierre Schaeffer

"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."

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"And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code."

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Donna Grant

"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."

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Donna Grant

"What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true."

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Donna Grant

"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original."

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Donna Grant

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

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Donna Grant

"In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best."

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Donna Grant

"There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime."

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Donna Grant

"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

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Donna Grant

"It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?"

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"The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not."

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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."

Perception

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Pierre Schaeffer
"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."

World

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Pierre Schaeffer
"The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic."

Sound

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Pierre Schaeffer
"Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true."

Thought

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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."

Music

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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."

World

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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."

Time

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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."

Music

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Pierre Schaeffer
"Sound is the vocabulary of nature."

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Pierre Schaeffer
"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?"

Music

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