Luc Ferrari Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.”

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

“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.”

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