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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.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
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.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
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.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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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.
Phil Manzanera Roxy Music -
I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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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.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I was always more of a rock drummer than an experimental drummer.
Paul Thompson Roxy Music -
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.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
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.
Paul Thompson Roxy Music
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But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
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.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
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.
Phil Manzanera Roxy Music