Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you’re hearing. I don’t use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.
It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
John Cage made you realise that there wasn’t a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn’t appreciated.
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult.
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
Law is always better than war.