Roxy Music Quotes
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I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
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I was always more of a rock drummer than an experimental drummer.
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It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
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I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
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What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
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I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.
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Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.
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I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.
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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
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I didn't really want to give up music.
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Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.
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In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
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I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.
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As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
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If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
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What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The 'take control of things' mode, the 'be careful, watch out' mode, the 'speed' mode - the 'Red Bull' mode, actually. There's nothing wrong with it. It's all part of what we are.