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.
Brian Eno
When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
You can't really imagine music without technology.
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.