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

- Luc Ferrari

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

- Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

- Luc Ferrari

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, bu…

- Luc Ferrari

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.

- Luc Ferrari

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 i…

- Luc Ferrari

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

- Luc Ferrari

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

- Luc Ferrari

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

- Luc Ferrari