“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'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.”
Technology“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 take sounds and change them into words.”
Change“I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.”
Music“Everybody is entertained to death.”
Death“In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.”
Music“I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.”
Music“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”
History“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”
Change“I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.”
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 think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.”
Music“At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.”
Art“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
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“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“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 would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.”
Future“Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.”
Music“Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.”
Music“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