I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

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.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

I suppose that's the secret. If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were, you just have to look up.

Lord who art always the same give that I know myself give that I know Thee.

Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.