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.

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.

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.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

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.

Every man shall bear his own burden.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.