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"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
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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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"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
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"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
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"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
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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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"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
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"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."
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"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
Company
"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
"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 was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."
Hate
"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
"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
Machine
"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."
Dumb
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