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"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
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"Better be alone than in bad company."
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"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."
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"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."
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"It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine."
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"We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell."
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"I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe."
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"It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company."
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"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly."
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"A local company has more accountability."
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"It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well."
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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
"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
"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
"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."
Hate
"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
"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."
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"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
Company
"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
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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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