People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of...
Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
One often makes music to supplement one's world.
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if the...
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It be...
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.