Roxy Music Quotes
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The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.
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I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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I take sounds and change them into words.
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I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins Like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.
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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.
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It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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I was perfectly happy about being in a pop group. Roxy Music was the perfect vehicle, and enabled me to continue with this parallel musical career, which had nothing to do with what the group were doing. It was more to do with the extension of British psychedelia.
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.
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I became a musician to be free, and freedom means pursuing your musical interests. So if you were tied to be in a band only, that probably would be too restrictive.