Roxy Music Quotes
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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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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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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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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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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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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'm very opinionated.
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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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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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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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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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 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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The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
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I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
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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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I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.
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Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
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It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
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At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.
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I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
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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.