Roxy Music Quotes
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The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can 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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I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.
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It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
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I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
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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 had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
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When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.
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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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It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
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It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.
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I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.
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If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
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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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Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
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It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!
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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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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
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Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.