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"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."
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"Control your thoughts to define your life."
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"The quality of your life depends on how you take control of your time."
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"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."
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"You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you."
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"You can control one thing and that is your thoughts."
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"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live."
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"All identification is for control and ownership."
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"If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better."
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"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."
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"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
"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 probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
Beginning
"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 have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
Machine
"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
Artist
"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."
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"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."
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"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
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