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Quote by Luigi Russolo
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, wi

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. – Luigi Russolo

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