I'm a huge Boards Of Canada fan. They're my favorite contemporary band. The interesting thing about Boards Of Canada is, they use analog and digital recording techniques, and nobody really knows how they get their sound. But I think that… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from your subconscious… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I think the music that's part of your heritage is what you spend a lot of your early life rejecting. The very idea of… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das Kapital over… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the problems with downloading mps these days. You never really get a chance to attune to a different logic,… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" -… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
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![“John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.” quote by Alasdair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/efc/alasdair-maclean-30200_celebrate_john-lennon-as-a-singer-the-way-he-sings_2273621.jpg)