Oui interview (1979)
Context: There isn’t anything weird about my music. Weird is a skeleton in the closet, wearing a rubber mask with warts all over its nose, and all that kind of shit. That’s not what I do. The thing that makes my music unusual is that people only hear one kind of music all the time over the radio. It’s wallpaper to their lives. Audile wallpaper. There’s one acceptable beat and there are three acceptable chord progressions. There are five acceptable words: baby, love, tears, yat yat. Just because I don’t deal in those terms doesn’t mean I’m weird. So tell these people: I ain’t weird; I’m rational. I’m a person who can choose to write stuff like that, or choose to write stuff that includes all the notes on the piano played at once, followed by a cement truck driving over the piano, followed by a small atomic explosion. Nothing weird about that as long as you do it in a meaningful way.
“Isn’t there anything you can do about the predator?”
Carmody asked.
“Nothing. Nor would I if I could. Predation is a necessary circumstance. Even the Gods are eventually eaten by Fate. You will not be an exception to the universal rule.”
Chapter 21 (p. 136)
Dimension of Miracles (1968)
“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”
“The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.”
blogs.legacyrecordings.com (February 5, 2008)
2007, 2008
On the song "Wuthering Heights"
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?”
“The Finder” (p. 67)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“To be honest, there's something a little weird about this.”
1995/4
About Code
On Ideas: Ideals: India.
Melodies of Brindavan: Pandit Hariprasad Chourasia
