Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic …

- R. Murray Schafer

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

- R. Murray Schafer

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

- R. Murray Schafer

Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so; I'd rather call…

- R. Murray Schafer

The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secr…

- R. Murray Schafer

We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!

- R. Murray Schafer

When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.

- R. Murray Schafer