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I function as a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

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The New Age music: "gave the opportunity for untalented people to make very boring music".

On music: "Scientifically, believe it or not, music drives everything, because music equals universe and universe equals music".

The number of interviews I've ever given could be counted on the fingers of my hands.

We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

Music for me is life, I stay in my studio until ten or eleven at night and I record every day. Not for money or for albums - I just compose music.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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