Roxy Music Quotes
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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'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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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.
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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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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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And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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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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Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.
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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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But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
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In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
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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.
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.