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

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

#Mind Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!”
-- R. Murray Schafer

#Ears Quotes

“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

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

#Lying Quotes #Orchestra Quotes #Dominion Quotes

“When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.”
-- R. Murray Schafer

#Miraculous Quotes

“Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.”
-- R. Murray Schafer

#World Quotes #Dawn Quotes #Modern Quotes

“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

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

#Hands Quotes #Secret Quotes #Trying Quotes

“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 Quotes #Two Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.”

“One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!”

“It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.5, Courier Corporation

“I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.”

“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”

“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”

“The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.”

“Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.”

“There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.”

“Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature”