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"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
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"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
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"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
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"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
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"I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true."
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"Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential."
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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
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"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."
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"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
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"An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started."
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"What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text."
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"Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm."
Music
"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."
Change
"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."
Body
"And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me."
Time
"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."
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"I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language."
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"But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery."
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"And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good."
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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."
Sound
"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm."
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