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"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender."

"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."

"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."

"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."

"We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now."

"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them."

"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."
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"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."

"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."

"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."

"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."

"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
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