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- Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?
- The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
- Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.
- Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been…
- All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
- Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is…
- All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
- With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
- 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…
- The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag!…
- I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and…
- When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about…
- Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
- All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to…
- For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
- I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
- Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that…
- 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.…
- When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is…
- Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a…
- 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…
- Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of…
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