Roxy Music Quotes
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I can never predict what's going to happen.
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I was always more of a rock drummer than an experimental drummer.
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I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
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It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
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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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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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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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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
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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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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
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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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As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
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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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Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.
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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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I didn't really want to give up music.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.
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I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.