Roxy Music Quotes
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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it.
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The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.
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A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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American television really is pathetic.
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I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
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Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
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Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
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Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
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I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
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It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.
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Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
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You can't really imagine music without technology.
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Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
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Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
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I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.