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If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

~David Tudor

Topics: Accept Become Find Observer Possible Put Situation Then Unpredictability You Yourself

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I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

~David Tudor

Topics: Alive Always Composition Felt Finished Know Living Piece Point Seems Where

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Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

~David Tudor

Topics: Destroyed Disposable Made Should

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Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

~David Tudor

Topics: Cooking Like Much Performing Putting Raising Temperature Together Very

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The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

~David Tudor

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Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

~David Tudor

Topics: Able Any Components Electronic Equipment Filters Gain Generator Made Manner Mixing Most Need Pieces Principle Several Sound Stages Up Uses Which Without Work You

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I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

~David Tudor

Topics: Able Any Arouse Been Computer Interest Me Myself Never Off Produced Sound Turns

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I persist in performing.

~David Tudor

Topics: Performing Persist

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I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

~David Tudor

Topics: Am Else Exist Music Perfectly Somebody Taste Willing I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 20th, 1926

Died: August 13th, 1996

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