Limited Edition of One Quotes

“Each day that passes I seem to understand less. The world I dreamed of being a part of now also feels like a dream. I keep on doing what I do, partly because it’s the only thing I can do, but also because I still love that dream.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“this was a cheerless place, where graduated ex-gamers were taking over the world with cryptocurrencies, gig economies and smartphone apps. Would-be lion tamers.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“life is speeding up. So is yours. Each year we live becomes proportionally a smaller percentage of our time on Earth. When I was a kid, every year that passed seemed to be a lifetime in itself.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“Sometimes you can’t tell what role something plays in your career until you’ve moved on to something else.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“I could say that about every album to some degree, they are all one step in a constantly evolving journey).”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“my whole career has been about trying to do different things, because I believe that’s what an artist should do.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“Art inhabits a strange netherworld where it’s not supposed to be about making a certain product to fulfil a certain requirement. It’s always been my belief that artists are supposed to be selfish and follow their own paths, because if they don’t they risk becoming ‘entertainers’, which is what I believe Miles was referring to.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“The chain of that permanently shifting connection between the artist and the fan can lay heavy for sure. In this case so heavy it made you sick. There is a layer of unreality involved in it, that’s part of the fun.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“What I mean when I say I’m a fan is that I like what an artist has created enough to be interested in what else they might have done and what they might do next.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“when you’re in love you don’t see things as they really are.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“To some degree I look on the world of rock music now like a deserted playground. The kids that used to play there have long since grown up and departed, but no new kids have come along to replace them. Meanwhile those grown-up kids still come back to the playground from time to time, mostly out of a sense of nostalgia. And when they do, they want it to be exactly the way they left it.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“Human beings are capable of such amazing things. I think a lot of what’s driven me as a musician is something to do with this, to touch other people with what I do has given me such a strong sense of purpose and motivation. The organic connection between the person that creates something and the person moved by it is a profoundly magical thing.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“Human beings are capable of such amazing things. I think a lot of what’s driven me as a musician is something to do with this, to touch other people with what I do has given me such a strong sense of purpose and motivation.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“You write about love a lot in your music. Yes I do, but in fairly oblique ways. The wonderful thing about the love song is it’s infinitely reinventible. You’d think by now there would be nothing new left to say about love. I’m constantly amazed to discover that it’s not the case.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“It’s not about talent and technique, plenty of people have much more of that than I do, but those things are irrelevant if there isn’t a unique perspective and strength of personality to start with.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“He even went to the trouble to make a video for the exclusive song on the 7-inch and uploaded it to YouTube to share. I was fine with this as (to continue the artwork analogy) it’s entirely up to the owner if they want to exhibit the piece of art in a gallery for all to see, or simply keep it hanging above their fireplace, exclusively for their pleasure. It belongs to them now.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“All these years later I’m still not completely immune to the idea of combining my desire to make great art with having big commercial success. It’s the balancing act many of my heroes pulled off, but is so hard to achieve when you try it for yourself.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“The struggle to strike a balance between artistic integrity and making a good living from music often seems like an unachievable dream, and these books are testament to that.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“I’ve been reading about music almost as long as I’ve been listening to it.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“As an artist, you are involved in how your work is displayed, formatted, presented, experienced.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“being a professional musician is about constantly re-engaging with your fans almost on a daily basis with more content.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“You’re working with lots of different artists, doing lots of different projects. That is the modern way now; it is not ‘here’s my masterpiece’ every two years, it’s here’s ‘me’ pretty much all the time.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“This idea that music can be endlessly recycled and twisted into new shapes from almost any source material lends itself perfectly to the context of collaboration, essentially creating music by ‘file swapping’.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“collaborating means you have a combination of personalities and influences, a Gestalt entity, in that respect. Not just the ideas from one person, but a melting pot of ideas from two or more.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“Professionalism is sometimes the most boring thing of all and you need to relocate the amateur in you.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“Being a solo artist is like being single: you can – musically speaking – sleep around with whomever you want. It keeps things fresh and interesting, stops you relying on your own clichés, and allows you to reinvent yourself on a regular basis.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“find it profoundly arresting and moving. You don’t need melody, rhythm or harmony; you just need the right thing to work as an emotional trigger, and even a single sound has the power to do that.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“during his whole professional career he never moved into management. He wasn’t the kind to socialise or suck up to people, so he was never considered for that kind of role. I can’t imagine him enjoying it anyway: he wanted to be creative, not doing job appraisals or juggling budgets. Dad: ‘Most bosses are not worthy of your respect, they get promoted because they are not capable of doing anything truly useful.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“The music media tends to be either looking for something new to champion, to place them ahead of the curve, or they stick with the big established artists.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One

“I really liked the idea that this was the kind of music that someone would make on a lazy day off, chilled out, unselfconscious.”
― Steven Wilson, Limited Edition of One