“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“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“I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.”
Music“Law is always better than war.”
War“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“In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.”
Music“One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.”
Art“I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.”
Music“I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!”
Music“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”
Change“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“You can't really imagine music without technology.”
Music“There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.”
Music“I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.”
Music“I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.”
Technology“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 get things out of my mind.”
Movingon“Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.”
Music“We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.”
Experience“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.”
Music“I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.”
Future“Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.”
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