"I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too."

People, Play, Writing

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too."

Exlpore more People quotes

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

People, Hope, Race, Will

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

People, Answers

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

People,

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

People, Writing

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

People, Beginning, Universe

"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."

H. G. Wells, English Author

People, May, Meaning

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

People, Universe

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

People, Consequences

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

People, Purpose, Forget

"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

People, Fact, Job, President

Explore more quotes by Luc Ferrari

"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."

Dumb

"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 probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."

Beginning

"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

"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."

Artist

"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."

Hate

"When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them."

Music

"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."

Machine

"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."

Control

"So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own."

Life