Roxy Music Quotes
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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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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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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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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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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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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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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 hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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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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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I'm very opinionated.
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
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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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It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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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 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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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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Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
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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'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
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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 think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.