“I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.”
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“I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.”
“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.”
“I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
“I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.”
“Most game music is based on loops effectively.”
“In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.”
“Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.”
“I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.”
“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.”
“Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.”
“Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.”
“I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.”
“People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.”
“I don't see music as working.”
“My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.”
“This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.”
“Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.”