Stockhausen was a great guy, very rich in terms of musical imagination, all the different aspects of sound creation rolled into one extraordinary intuition. With a strict intention to be serial, but serial in an explosive way.Quote by Luc Ferrari about intention, intuition, creation, wealth, imagination
Then I was at Darmstadt from 1954 onwards, and it was great. My first pieces were played straightaway. It was there that I met everybody who made up that generation that redefined post-War music.Quote by Luc Ferrari about war, music
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.Quote by Luc Ferrari about teachers
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.Quote by Luc Ferrari about objects, events, idea, time
When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.Quote by Luc Ferrari about music, old, olderness, work, time
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.Quote by Luc Ferrari about character, idea
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.Quote by Luc Ferrari about impossible
At the Curie Institute, one of the highest goals for a physicist, I found myself empty. Beaten up by disbelief, I kept going because of inertia, which my soul rejected.Quote by Ernesto Sabato about work, purpose, soul
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions.Quote by Ernesto Sabato about literature, dream, workers, heads
I'd like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.Quote by Jeremy Clarkson about cars, god
It's not intelligent who always know what to say, but who always know when not to speak.Quote by Mariana Ferrari about intelligence