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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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"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you."
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"We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot."
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"Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public."
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
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"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."
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"A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content."
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"When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority."
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"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."
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"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
"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."
Company
"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
"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 probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
Beginning
"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
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"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
"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."
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