Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That... →
Brian Eno
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part... →
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.
What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The... →
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to... →
I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and... →
Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences.... →
If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a... →
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the... →