“The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.” — Pierre Schaeffer

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

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

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

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.