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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."
"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."
"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."
"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."
"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."
"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
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