"We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now."

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"We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now."

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"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."

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"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."

Stephen Wolfram, English Scientist

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"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."

Johnny Vegas, British Comedian

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"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."

Kate Smith, American Musician

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"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."

John Sebastian, American Musician

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"'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else."

Ugo Betti, Italian Playwright

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"I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!"

Fritz Zwicky, Swiss Scientist

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"My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors."

Bette Midler, American Actress

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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme."

Music

"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."

Sound

"I think that music has an endless life."

Life

"My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do."

Work

"Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved."

Art

"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."

Performance

"Composers are always going back to the past."

Composer

"Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't."

Idea

"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."

Film

"You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches."

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