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- If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that…
- Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
- Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
- Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your…
- When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about…
- If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
- Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
- Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
- For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
- I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
- I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
- I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
- You can't really imagine music without technology.
- You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that…
- If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
- It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
- The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your…
- It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
- Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import…
- Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very…
- I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other…
- If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big…
- If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in…
- If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might…
- Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide