David Tudor Quotes
- I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.
- Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.
- I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
- I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the…
- If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.
- Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I…
- The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an…
- Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who…
- Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.
- I persist in performing.