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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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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."
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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."
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"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
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"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
Artist
"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
"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
Company
"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
"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 probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
Beginning
"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 have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
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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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