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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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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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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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I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.
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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 think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
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I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
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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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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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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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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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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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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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In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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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 wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.