“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”
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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 got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.