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Quotes
In this page I've collected some quotes that fit well in the way I approach things like programming, listening to music, composing music, thinking, researching, ...
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
One man's noise may be another man's signal.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
To stubbornly conditioned ears, anything new in music has always been called noise. But after all what is music but organized noises?
I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the music. To facilitate closely detailed listening a musical process should happen extremely gradually.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
The most damaging phrase in the language is.. it's always been done this way
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
New methods change the experience, and new experiences change man. Whenever we hear sounds, we are changed, we are no longer the same, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds; music.
