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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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"I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry."
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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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"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."
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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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"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
Artist
"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."
Music
"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
"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
Company
"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
"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
"When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them."
Music
"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
Beginning
"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."
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