Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
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.
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
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.
The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
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.
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except that which is prohibited. In the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted. And in Italy, under the law everything is permitted, especially that which is prohibited.
Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.
The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'.