Pierre Schaeffer Quotes

Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.'

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Music is the perfect type of art.

the one universal form of art is music.

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty....you might want to play something out of context with the tune. It might be a note that creates so much tension it becomes unpleasant, but you want it to sound that way.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

I think of language as our first music.

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

There is nothing more regenerating than music.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.