All those ethereal string sounds on 'Oxygene IV' come from the VCS3. It was the first European synthesizer, made in England by a guy called Peter Zinoviev. I got one of the first ones.


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The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL EYQUEM
The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
MICHEL EYQUEM
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
MICHEL EYQUEM
No wind favors him who has no destined port.
MICHEL EYQUEM
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be cov...
MICHEL EYQUEM
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL EYQUEM
This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one ...
MICHEL AOUN
This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the ...
MICHEL AOUN
Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions,
MICHEL AOUN
We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian contro...
MICHEL AOUN
The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explo...
MICHEL AOUN
one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon.
MICHEL AOUN
I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still op...
MICHEL AOUN
If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we ...
MICHEL AOUN
The focus should be on making sure that the Palestinian infiltration is studied by the government an...
MICHEL AOUN
If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals.
MICHEL AOUN
We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected.
MICHEL ALABY
Ore doesn't have added value.
MICHEL ALABY
It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure.
MICHEL ALABY
The idea is to make the chambers speak to the governments to implement these proposals.
MICHEL ALABY
As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and i...
MICHEL ALABY
It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man.
MICHEL ALABY
According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan ...
MICHEL ALABY
We exported commodities to Somalia.
MICHEL ALABY
She showed interest in learning about the profile of the Brazilian companies so that they may partic...
MICHEL ALABY
Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is ...
MICHEL ALABY
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps ...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of though...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push ...
MICHEL GONDRY
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it ...
MICHEL ONFRAY
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury ...
MICHEL FABER
That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking c...
MICHEL GONDRY
By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which h...
MICHEL FABER
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find...
MICHEL ONFRAY
All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that...
MICHEL GONDRY
My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his pro...
MICHEL FABER
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The mo...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it&#...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from m...
MICHEL FABER
Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that sa...
MICHEL FABER
I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - ...
MICHEL FABER
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-wo...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Bro...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director....
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications an...
MICHEL SABBAH
A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape.
MICHEL SABBAH