“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.”
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“Music is the emotional life of most people.”
“The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.”
“I found music to be the therapy of choice.”
“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”
“In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.”
“That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.”
“Music is for every single person that walks the planet.”
“When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.”
“Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.”
“Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.”
“I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.”
“I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.”
“I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my b---s. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.”
“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”
“Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate all that was once so beautiful is dead.”
“Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.”
“I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.”
“That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.”
“I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.”
“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.”
“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”
“I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.”
“It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.”