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- Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music…
- The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
- My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear…
- 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…
- I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
- John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
- I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
- What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the…
- All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
- Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
- I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
- I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
- One often makes music to supplement one's world.
- People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
- Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
- The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
- The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
- Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your…
- Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
- Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
- I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
- 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.
- You can't really imagine music without technology.
- I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
- I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
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