Quotes from R. Murray Schafer

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!

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

The final question will be: is the soundscape of the world an indeterminate composition over which we have no control, or are we its composers and performers, responsible for giving it form and beauty?

For a child of five, art is life and life is art... but once the child is in school they get separated--art becomes art and life becomes life.

To take some obvious examples: the territorial calls of birds are reproduced in automobile horn blowing, their alarm calls are reproduced in police sirens and their pleasure calls in the beach-side radio.

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