Roxy Music Quotes
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.
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One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
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Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.
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I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
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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 believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.
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When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
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I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
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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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American television really is pathetic.
