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Luc Ferrari Quotes
- Name:
- Luc Ferrari
- Type:
- Composer
- Nationality:
- French
- Birth day:
- February 5
- Birth year:
- 1929
- 1
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer. Luc Ferrari
- 2
I had these ideas of interpretation that went way beyond the standard Conservatoire limits. So I was at war with my piano teachers. Luc Ferrari
- 3
I have problems with machines which aren't gestural. Luc Ferrari
- 4
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s. Luc Ferrari
- 5
I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing. Luc Ferrari
- 6
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. Luc Ferrari
- 7
I was a kid during the Second World War and even before that my parents had one of the first radio sets, and there was Radio London. Luc Ferrari
- 8
I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it. Luc Ferrari
- 9
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. Luc Ferrari
- 10
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own. Luc Ferrari
- 11
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. Luc Ferrari
- 12
What interested me was looping the events in such a way that each time they reappeared, they created new musical objects. The idea of tautology. Luc Ferrari
- 13
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. Luc Ferrari
- 14
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. Luc Ferrari
- 15
You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things. Luc Ferrari