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"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her 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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"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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"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 also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie."
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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
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"I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it."
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"I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong."
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"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Mimicking people was something I did already."
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"I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people."
People
"Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people."
People
"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."
People
"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
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"I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations."
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"I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."
People
"My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic."
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"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound."
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