20 Quotes by Herbert

As I get older, everything feels like it’s fundamentally connected, and once you’ve accepted the idea that business is right, and the free market – though there’s never really been one – is right, then everything else just follows naturally from there.

I don’t listen to a huge amount of music generally. Partly because you’ve sat in a studio for 10 hours and then when you come home you just want to read a book, and listen to the sound of your central heating system.

You always come back to Duke Ellington – he’s kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.

I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.

Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material – it’s also the artwork, the packaging it comes in.

I came out of an electronic music scene that based all its music on software. It was a real boys thing, a real testosterone thing – software and the relationship between music and the software – to the point where it was like a closely guarded secret.

The more you look into pigs the more you realize quite how everywhere they are. People come in contact with parts of pigs probably between 20 and 50 times a day. And that’s before you even eat your dinner. And yet we just have a long string of negative words about them.

In modern studios, we’re so used to becoming little dictators; you’re used to the fascism of having complete control over every element.

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.