I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both …

- Pierre Schaeffer

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

- Pierre Schaeffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

- Pierre Schaeffer

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is…

- Pierre Schaeffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

- Pierre Schaeffer

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians st…

- Pierre Schaeffer

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

- Pierre Schaeffer

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

- Pierre Schaeffer

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

- Pierre Schaeffer