“The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.”
Art“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“The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.”
Art“Everybody is entertained to death.”
Death“I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.”
Music“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”
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“In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.”
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“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“Most game music is based on loops effectively.”
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“I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.”
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“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 think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.”
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“I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.”
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“Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.”
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