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.
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't...
I'm very good with technology I always have been and with machines in...
I'm actually an evangelical atheist but there is something I recognise about...
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly...
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe...
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier...
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long a quieter voice seems...
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one...
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what...
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and...
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the...
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to...
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed I agree with you.
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music...
I didn't really see the British punk movement if that's what it was as...
One and the same thing can at the same time be good bad and indifferent...
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I...