On Bowie
TALKING HEADS’ Fear of Music
David Mitchell • The Bone Clocks: A Novel
I’d done was move the songs to a new context. Because I performed them more energetically than the standard folk artist might present his own material, people listened, or maybe they were just stunned at the audacity of a precocious teenager.
David Byrne • How Music Works
Yorke credited Blood & Chocolate as “the album that made me change the way I thought about recording and writing music. Lyrics, too.” You can hear that influence loud and clear in “Creep.”
Steven Hyden • This Isn't Happening
Quotes:
“I’m talking to you,” he began, “because the old shit doesn’t work anymore.”
The established patterns for releasing music, going on tour, and putting work into culture, he explained, were no longer relevant. The infrastructure, the audiences, and the money just weren’t there.
“I don’t know where things are going,” he continued, “But I know the
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