"I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that."

Work, Idea, Personality

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"I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that."

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"People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words."

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"As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me."

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"I take sounds and change them into words."

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"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."

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"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

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"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."

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"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper."

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"If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once."

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"Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it."

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"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."

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