Attali on Violence

"In my view, music is a metaphor for the management of violence. When people listen to music, they listen to the fact that society is possible: because we can manage violence."

…"if you look at music as a metaphor for the organizing differences among noises, then you have music as a metaphor for the organizing of scapegoats. Noise is violence, it is killing. Organizing noises, creating differences in noises, is a way of demonstrating that violence can be transformed into a way of managing violence…"