Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me.
People often ask me what role technology plays in music, and whether I think there is too much technology in music. Recently, I have started answering by saying that technology in music is a little bit like numbers to mathematics. You can’t really imagine music without technology. Now, as my friend Danny Hillis the inventor said, technology is the name we give to things that don’t work yet. When it works we don’t call it technology anymore. But you have to remember that once upon a time a violin was technology, once upon a time an organ was technology. Those things were all built and created by people who were working at the cutting edge of the technologies of their time.
The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound lack of spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it, the fact that they are neither willing or ready to consider the meaning and aim of their existence in any higher sense, is often masked by the vulgarly simplistic cry, ‘I don’t like it!’ ‘It’s boring!’ It is not a point that one can argue; but it is like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow. He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached.
Anything that don’t frighten the children is in good taste, as far as I’m concerned.
Question: “What brought you to Hollywood?”
John Ford : “A train”
(Interviewed by Jean Luc Godard for ‘Cahiers du Cinema’)
Interviewer: What is your relationship with the public?
Aphex Twin: I hate them.
Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin)
In an interview before his performance at the Sonar 2011 Festival where he held the best session ever.
“We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
Philip K. Dick, Writer (illustration by Robert Crumb)
“I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”
Charlie Chaplin, Film Genius
A film can be good, mediocre or poor. But it should never be done against conscience, thoughts and ideology of the author.
