R. Murray Schafer Quotes

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

  R. Murray Schafer

  Mind, Tasks, Noise

  R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf

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

  R. Murray Schafer

  Miraculous

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• 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 secret of that tuning.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Hands, Secret, Trying

  R. Murray Schafer (1993). “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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

  R. Murray Schafer

  Ears

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• Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

  R. Murray Schafer

  Lying, Musician, Sound

  R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• 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 them curiosity and courage. Curiosity to look for the new and the hidden; courage to develop your own tastes regardless of what others might say or think.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Thinking, Two, Curiosity

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

  R. Murray Schafer

  Dawn, World, Modern

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