Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
Jacques AttaliIn noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades manโs time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream โ Music.
Jacques AttaliFor 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. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.
Jacques Attali