Roxy Music Quotes
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
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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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When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
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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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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.
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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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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
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I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.
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I'm very opinionated.
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I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
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I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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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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It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
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The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.
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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've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
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I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.