I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last.

I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

Weirdly also listening to a lot of Aphex Twin again, I loved Syro.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality.

Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.

I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer.

I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.

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