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"Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing."
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"When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind."
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"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
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"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"
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"I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you."
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"I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that."
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"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down."
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"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
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"We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show."
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"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
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"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
Beginning
"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
Machine
"Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology."
Music
"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."
Dumb
"I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too."
People
"Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character."
Idea
"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."
Hate
"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
Company
"With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible."
Control
"So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own."
Life
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