“I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.”
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 think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.”
Change“Everybody is entertained to death.”
Death“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“Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.”
Music“Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.”
Music“If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.”
Religion“Most game music is based on loops effectively.”
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“I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.”
Future“I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.”
Music“Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.”
Music“The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.”
Art“Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.”
Music“I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.”
Music“Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.”
Music“I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.”
Technology“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”
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 make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.”
Music“Law is always better than war.”
War