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

Jacques Attali Politics See all quotes by Jacques Attali →

React to this quote

More by Jacques Attali

“What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.”

Resonant Thoughts

"expressed his cordial agreement with what Mr. Washington had said as to the importance of basing the progress of the coloured people of the South upon industrial training. Having made two or three vis…"

— James Bryce

Sports1838–1922

#time

"The amount of time it takes to provide is threefold for families whom have to make due with very little. … Children from poor households learn to have very low expectations of themselves and their fut…"

— Manuel Rivera-Ortiz

Art1968

#time

"My dear Laura. My congratulations to Paul le candidat du Jardin des Plantes—et des animaux. Being, in his quality as a nigger, a degree nearer to the rest of the animal kingdom than the rest of us, he…"

— Friedrich Engels

Philosophy1796–1860

#time

"he right hon. Gentleman the Member for Stroud says of this Budget... it is a mortal stab at the Constitution. I want to know to what Constitution does it give a mortal stab? In my opinion it gives no …"

— William Ewart Gladstone

Politics1809–1898

#knowledge