In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.