If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and … - Aphex Twin

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Aphex Twin

If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh. "

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Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.

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I wanted to do gigs where you've just got mirrors on the stage, and then you light the crowd so they look at the stage and all they can see is themselves. It's just like, "There you go, it's you, you cunts. "

Light, Look, Looks, Mirrors, See

The holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. Or, even better, from lots of different planets. The closest we got to that was before the Internet, when people didn't know of each other's existence. Now, that doesn't really happen.

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I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.

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The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.

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I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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Hayley Atwell

If you're playing someone who has lived, there's the risk of imitation, or whether you focus on the essence of who that character was as opposed to physical mannerisms. So, you have to figure out what it is ultimately that this particular adaptation of the story, whether it's fiction or not, is trying to say.

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The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.

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Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

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