If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

I put projects together. I put people together.

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Men who’ve made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they’ve chosen to follow.

What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don't expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.