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"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."
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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
"The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding."
"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."
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"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."
"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."
"Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him."
"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
"Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo."
"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."
"Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public."
"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it."
"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
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