What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

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.

In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

A giant motherboard of geese, unruffled by the statepolice, swarmed in unison, in harmony...

It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power.

I will say what I want to say. I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.