Roxy Music Quotes
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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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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The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.
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I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
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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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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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You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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I take sounds and change them into words.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable sic as it is interesting.
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I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
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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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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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My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.
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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.