“I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.”
Future“I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.”
Future“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“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“I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.”
Music“One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.”
Knowledge“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“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“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“Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.”
Music“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 hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!”
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“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“Law is always better than war.”
War“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“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”
History“Most game music is based on loops effectively.”
Music“I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.”
Freedom“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
Music“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.”
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