Roxy Music Quotes
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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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Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
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One often makes music to supplement one's world.
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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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I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Performing was terrifying.
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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
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I often work by avoidance.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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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 started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.
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I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.