Bruno Dumont Quotes

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

I try to make it a sonic experience so that when you put your earbuds in or when you're in your room, it sounds like an enveloping feeling. I think that is the most important thing, that wherever you are, it is wrapping you up and making you feel safe and comfortable.

The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you.

A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

I love seeing Tim Hecker perform because the experience truly shakes me.

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what you see.

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

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

People would do the sound of a truck backing up - beeeep, beeeep - as I was sitting down.

I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.

I love learning how people hear my music because everyone has different references.

I never made a distinction, really, between music and sound. Let me explain what I mean by that. I grew up near to a train station, and the sound of the trains became a very important part of my world. It was a very musical sound to me.

The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.