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"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
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"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."
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"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."
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"Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective."
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"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."
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"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."
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"In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm."
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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
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"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
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"You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound."
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"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."
Experts
"Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register."
Music
"If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die."
Music
"Jazz is people's music, a collectivity."
Music
"If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up."
People
"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
Strategy
"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
People
"I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone."
Love
"When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing."
Music
"I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever."
History
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