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"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it."
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"First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos."

"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."

"The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form."

"And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable."

"The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five."

"We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins."
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"And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good."

"Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo."

"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."

"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm."

"Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public."

"Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm."

"And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music."

"Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him."
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