Roxy Music Quotes
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it.
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Although designers continue to dream of 'transparency' - technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt - both creators and audiences actually like technologies with 'personality.'
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Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.
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It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
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I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's.
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Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.
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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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Performing was terrifying.
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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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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.
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I was always more of a rock drummer than an experimental drummer.
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I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
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I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
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I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
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I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.
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I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect.
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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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I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.
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The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.