My son Chris said he was 12 years old before he knew what I did for a living.

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• Bob Elliott:

  Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm su

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  I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably w

• Bob Elliott:

  Ray and I both grew up with radio. Our whole hopes for the future were that we'd get into radio.

• Pierre Boulez:

  My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living

• Pierre Boulez:

  I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent.

• Pierre Boulez:

  I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regula

• Pierre Boulez:

  I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometime

• Pierre Boulez:

  Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what y

• Pierre Boulez:

  I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It giv

• Pierre Boulez:

  People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.