A Quote by Luigi Russolo
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.
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Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.
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You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.
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Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.
For 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.
Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.
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