I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
Law is always better than war.
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
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.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
Everybody is entertained to death.
It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
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.'
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
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.
I take sounds and change them into words.
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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