“For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.”
Music“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 attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.”
Music“For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.”
Music“I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.”
Music“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.”
Music“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
Music“Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.”
Music“The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.”
Computers“At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.”
Art“I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!”
Music“I take sounds and change them into words.”
Change“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.”
Music“I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.”
Music“I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.”
Future“I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.”
Music“Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.”
Music“Law is always better than war.”
War“I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.”
Music“I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.”
Dreams“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 sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.”
Music“Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.”
Future“I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.”
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