Roxy Music Quotes
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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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I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
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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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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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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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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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Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.
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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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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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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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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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I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.
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It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn't expected or predicted by what I supplied. Once phase two begins everything is okay, because then the work starts to dictate its own terms. It starts to get an identity which demands certain future moves. But during the first phase you often find that you come to a full stop.
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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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I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
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Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.
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I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.
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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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Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.
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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.