Luigi Russolo Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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.”
-- Luigi Russolo

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“We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.”
-- Luigi Russolo

Source : Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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“As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.”
-- Luigi Russolo

Source : Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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“Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.”
-- Luigi Russolo

Source : Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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“Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men.”
-- Luigi Russolo

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“At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.”
-- Luigi Russolo

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“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”
-- Luigi Russolo

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“Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men.”
-- Luigi Russolo

#Men Quotes #Noise Quotes #Reign Quotes

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“Only silence perfects silence.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.”

“There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.”

“Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.”

“There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.”

“One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.”

“Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.”

Source : Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”