Pierre Schaeffer Quotes

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

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

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

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.

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

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.