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1. "Sound is the vocabulary of nature." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
2. "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?" ~ Pierre Schaeffer
3. "The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
4. "Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
5. "The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
6. "The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
7. "It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
8. "First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
9. "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." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
10. "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." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
11. "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." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
12. "People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs." ~ Pierre Schaeffer
13. "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." ~ Pierre Schaeffer

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You know, Lillian, someday I will sit down and write a little dictionary for you, a little Chinese dictionary. In it I will put down all the interpretations of what is said to you, the right interpretation, that is: the one that is not meant to injure, not meant to humiliate or accuse or doubt. And whenever something is said to you, you will look in my little dictionary to make sure, before you get desperate, that you have understood what is said to you."
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