Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.