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"The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward."
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"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
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"The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past."
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"When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key."
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"We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters."
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"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."
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"Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven."
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"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."
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"I always knew I would live in France."
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"In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it."
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"Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception."
Perception
"The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there."
Music
"I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time."
Time
"In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed."
Music
"Sound is the vocabulary of nature."
Nature
"Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?"
Music
"First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality."
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"It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous."
Time
"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."
Change
"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
Civilization
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