What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tool… - Jacques Attali
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tool…
- Jacques Attali
Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds. - Jacques Attali
Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. I… - Jacques Attali
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. I…
What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new. - Jacques Attali
What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.
The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman. - Jacques Attali
The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. - Jacques Attali
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
Global governance is just a euphemism for global government. - Jacques Attali
Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it - Jacques Attali
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it
Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society. - Jacques Attali
Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.
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