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"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."

"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."

"Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years."

"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."
Explore more quotes by Luc Ferrari

"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."

"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."

"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."

"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."

"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."

"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."

"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."

"I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing."
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