Roxy Music Quotes
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I love good, loud speakers.
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Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
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When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
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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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The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'
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Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
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The computer brings out the worst in some people.
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I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.
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I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.
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Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
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I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.
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I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
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Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.
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I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
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When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.
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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.