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"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
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"With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs."
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"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
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"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."
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"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
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"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
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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."
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"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."
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"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."
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"Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character."
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