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"But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery."
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"Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map."

"The apothecary's name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He'd found a new type of blue fluff, which he was grinding down. It was probably good for curing something. He'd have to try it out on people until he found out what."

"There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."

"To find doesn't always require to search."

"He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there."

"It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow."
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"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it."

"And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good."

"Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo."

"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."

"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm."

"Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public."

"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."

"And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music."
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