Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.
You talk to me as if from a distance And I reply with impressions chosen from another time.
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
Well, I am a dilettante. It’s only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it’s called interdisciplinary research.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.
I think, if you spend a day or as many people do a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.