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

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 have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

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.

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.

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges in the trial of Galileo, when they invited him to retract his views.

Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

I always love to do something different and new and be challenged by different characters.

The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.

I look forward to competing.

No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven.

This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts to drop dead.

I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.