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I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?
The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.
It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.
More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn't an MP3.
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.
Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.