Roxy Music Quotes
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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My shows are not narratives.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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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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I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.
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You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.
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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 like L.A., but I shouldn't live 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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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
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I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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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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Think inside the work - outside the work.
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Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.
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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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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.