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A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

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As always in a musical collaboration One has to like each other. As simple as that.

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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words how the artist made it his own.

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I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

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You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

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No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who exploded all those ideas which were already starting to get a bit institutionalised.

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Beware of missing chances otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

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There is another interesting paradox here by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

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When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

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The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

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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.

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As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

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Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

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It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

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My background was in performing originally.

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In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

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Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

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Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

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And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

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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.

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I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

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