“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
Music“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”
Change“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
Music“I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.”
Music“If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.”
Religion“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“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“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”
History“Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.”
Music“I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.”
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 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“Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.”
Music“I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.”
Music“Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.”
Music“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”
Change“Everybody is entertained to death.”
Death“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”
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“I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.”
Music“Law is always better than war.”
War“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.”
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