Roxy Music Quotes
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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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Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
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Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
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I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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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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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 was always more of a rock drummer than an experimental drummer.
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Roxy was just going too safe, and at the time I was also a bit pissed off at the business—not with playing, but with the people in it.
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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 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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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
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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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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 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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Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
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But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
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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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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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It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
