For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.