Roxy Music Quotes
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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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It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
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If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
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I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'
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One often makes music to supplement one's world.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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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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Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
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Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
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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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It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
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The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.
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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.
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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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Performing was terrifying.
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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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I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote 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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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I often work by avoidance.
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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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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.