It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

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.

Life is like playing musical chairs –– you never know when the music will stop.” ~

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.