Pierre Schaeffer Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DoorPerceptionProcessSoundViolin

I always fall for the guy that, like, has to blow me off because he needs to go do something with his dog. I love those kind of guys.

Jennifer Coolidge

DogLoveMeFallGoKind

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Maya Angelou

TalentElectricityYouDoneHuman

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

Robert Plant

WorkMusiciansEverythingOwe

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

Matt LeBlanc

MeetingsYouNothingThroughSit

When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

Michael Biehn

ParentsGoMoviesHotKidSee

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play.

John Van Hamersveld

LifeMusicSportsPoliticsFashion

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

Stedman Graham

TodayTomorrowYouYesterdayDone

Every single thing that I was told that I couldn't do without a label - get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist - I've done.

Stormzy

DoneSingleWithoutRadioGetLabel

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Russell M. Nelson

ChildrenParentsLearnTeachersThen

I just want Emma Thompson to be my best friend.

Janet Varney

FriendBestBest FriendWantJust

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Bobby Scott

PoliticsPlayCrimeReduce

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

Peter Camejo

MindMeFaceSayPatriotRight

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