“People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.”
Electronic Musician magazine, December 1986
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Pierre Schaeffer 8
French musicologist 1910–1995Related quotes
“For those who create or interpret it, music is the maximum expression of the depth of his soul.”
Original: Per chi la crea o la interpreta, la musica è la massima espressione della profondità della sua anima.
Source: prevale.net
“To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?”
Quoted in a 1976 interview, published in Desert Plants by Walter Zimmermann.
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday Jan. 14, 2007, NPR, 2009-02-03 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6835078,
“Only those who listen to music with the heart can experience the vibrations of love.”
Original: (it) Solo chi ascolta musica col cuore riesce a provare le vibrazioni dell'amore.
Source: prevale.net
“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.”
Misattributed
First recorded appearance: Germaine de Staël's On Germany (1813). ". . . sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane." There are several other pre-Nietzsche examples, indicating that the phrase was widespread in the nineteenth-century; it was referred to in 1927 as an "old proverb".
