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"Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical."
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"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
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"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."
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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
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"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
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"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
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"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
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"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
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"Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools."
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"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
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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
"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."
People
"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
Company
"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."
Idea
"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
"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."
Music
"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
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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."
Music
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