Roxy Music Quotes
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I take sounds and change them into words.
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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
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A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.
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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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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 tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
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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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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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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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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'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
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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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Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
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Listening to something is an act of surrender.
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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.