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Pierre Schaeffer Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: french
Birth: August 14, 1910 - August 19, 1995

Topics

Music Sound Concrete Stage Contrast

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Michael Ende

Life Heart Time Human Human Heart

I didn't go to Hebrew school.

Amy Heckerling

School Go Hebrew

People in the movie division hate the people in the cable group... Ultimately, you work for NBCUniversal, not Bravo or Syfy.

Steve Burke

Work Hate People You Group Division

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

Skeet Ulrich

Good Time Me Think You I Can

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

Rory Bremner

Knowledge People Feel You Phone Up

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

Mike Tyson

Thinking Goal Sight Way Inspiration

Trump is a cultural candidate for president, not an economic one. He clearly loves America and wants America to stay America. America won't be America if it has open borders and mass Muslim immigration.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Immigration America President Borders

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.

Joshua Foer

Good Fire Laughter Kiss Language

The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that is phenomenal encouragement.

Derek Walcott

Encouragement Look Back Celebration

My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John.

Christian Kane

Chains Influences Elton John John

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

Christian Marclay

Together Child Drawing Always Out

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

Susan Orlean

Power Beautiful People Magic Want