I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

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

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

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.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

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

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

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Beatrice did something to him, reduced him to his basic animal self, but he needed to purge his out of control feelings, not amplify them.

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly.

People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

Never be bullied into silence.

He is the God of nothing, if that is all you can see. He is the God of everything, he's inside you and me.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, "If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them."