Law is always better than war.
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.
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of th...
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the futur...
I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion...
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowled...
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient...