When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from your subconscious can slip through more easily. The way that I write songs, for what its worth, when… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM, which was… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share
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… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share
