W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you..

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamel….

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another..

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always impo….

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours..

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things..

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge..

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt s….

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice..

When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who encouraged me, but the ones who took very stro….

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked..

Honor thy error as a hidden intention..

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 movin….

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action..

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

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene..

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which repre….

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is in….

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we hav….