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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

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