“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“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“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 hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.”
Music“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”
Great“Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.”
Experience“Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.”
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“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“The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.”
Art“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“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“You can't really imagine music without technology.”
Music“When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'”
Intelligence“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”
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“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“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“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”
History“I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.”
Future“I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.”
Music“Most game music is based on loops effectively.”
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