"The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there."

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Pierre Schaeffer

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“The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.”
“Hyperdub started in 2001 as a web magazine, but we also did a few events in the early days before becoming a label.”

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“First thing you have to do is say to yourself what can I bring to it, what can I do and how can I make the country better? How can I improve it?”
“I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.”
“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”
“I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized”
“Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like.”
“Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.”

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