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

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

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.