DrongoJukebox

The real aim of music is to coordinate the minds of the people into…an intelligent approach to the living future.

-Sun Ra

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

-Susan Sontag

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

-John Cage

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

-Pema Chödrön

The new universality consists in feeling that the ground is in the process of giving way.

-Bruno Latour

How can sound be conceived as being?

-Zai Tang

Listen for the things that don’t inform your world.

-Bani Haykal

Concentrate upon ‘what’s there,’ and not what you hope or wish would be there.

-Elliot Schwartz

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

-Pierre Schaeffer

Change is not something absolute, chaotic, and kaleidoscopic; its manifestation is a relative one, something connected with fixed points and a given order.

-I Ching wisdom

It is clear that where a picture is worth a thousand words, a soundscape may soon be worth a thousand pictures.

-Bernie Kraus

You are not running out of time. Time is running out of you.

-Max Tkachenko

There are new worlds awaiting active listeners.

-Eric Leonardson

We walk the streets with a thousand legs and eyes, with furry antennae picking up the slightest clue and memory of the past.

-Henry Miller

All you who listen here should turn inward your faculty of hearing to hear your own nature. This is how enlightenment is won.

-Surungama Sutra

But if we are clear in our own mind that listening doesn’t mean agreement, we can open with confidence to other points of view.

-Zen saying

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

-Brian Eno

For its part, science is about being able to admit that you're wrong.

-Timothy Morton

The noise isn’t bothering you. You are bothering the noise.

-Ajah Chah

The role of the listener, to me, is an important one, because they have the potential to limit or expand the meaning of the sound.

-Tini Aliman

To listen is to enter that spatiality by which, at the same time, I am penetrated, for it opens up in me as well as around me, and from me as well as toward me...

-Jean-Luc Nancy

Life is a window of vulnerability.

-Donna Haraway

Walk so silently that the bottom of your feet are ears.

-Pauline Oliveros

You can perceive how someone else may hear differently if you tug and tear at your ear and try to alter its shape.

-Hildergard Westerkamp

This is the real work of the peacemaker, to find the soft spot and the tenderness in that very uneasy place and stay with it.

-Pema Chödrön

To oppose something is to maintain it.

-Ursula K. Le Guin

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

-Rabindranath Tagore

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

-Victor Hugo

To pay attention to breath and sound in a breathless and noisy society means to create a space for oneself that allows difference to occur, to find a place where we can feel our own presence.

-Hildegard Westerkamp

Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

-Andre 3000

Attention can be honed to a finer and finer point. Awareness can be expanded until it seems all-inclusive. Attention can intensify awareness. Awareness can support attention.

-Pauline Oliveros

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

-John Muir

Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.

-Oliver Sacks

…the song of the earth or the cry of men. What is common is ‘sensation’.

-Jacques Rancière

One person’s contemplation is another’s noise.

-Ian Woo

Which is the quietest sound of your body?

-Hildergard Westerkamp

Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.

-Gordon Hempton

Sound never really ‘dies’...so the work is never solely about its role in an isolated concert hall as it should be about rediscovering the fundamental act of listening that continues long after the show is over.

-Joel Ong

Each type of sound, from whatever origin, contains its own unique signature, or quality, one that inherently contains vast stores of information.

-Bernie Kraus

Harmony covers a wide range of categories which include sentiments such as “happy”, “sad”, “dark” and “mysterious”.

-Jacob Collier

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

-R. Murray Schafer

Our experience with sound unfolds as a continuous now.

-Michael Stocker

We can exercise our awareness of how the acoustics of a space colour a sound, just as our sense of time and emotions might do as well.

-Zai Tang

The presence of noise makes sense, makes meaning. It makes possible the creation of a new order on another level of organization, of a new code in another network.

-Jacques Attali

Your mind is a temple. Keep it beautiful and free. Don’t let an egg get laid in it by something you can’t see.

-Bob Dylan

A sound that no one can hear does not exist.

-Aghiles Salah

I can perceive a distance but that is a heard distance. The distance is what I hear here, not the over-there.

-Salomé Voegelin

Listen to the reed flute how it tells a tale, lamenting its separation from the reed bed.

-Rumi

Progress is a forward march, drawing other kinds of time into its rhythms. Without that driving beat, we might notice other temporal patterns...

-Anna Tsing

Moments inside the Moments inside the Moments...

-Maria Porpova

These sounds, as impermanent as they appear to the ears of a wandering listener, may open hidden doors and obscure entrances…

-Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

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