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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."

"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."

"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."

"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."

"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off."


"It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things."


"My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this."


"I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly."


"Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too."
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