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"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
"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."
"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."
"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."
"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
Explore more quotes by Luc Ferrari
"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."
"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."
"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
"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 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."
"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 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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