Music stars on Scott Walker: One of the most intensely original visionaries to ever have lived

"They’re incredible film scores to his imagination, which was clearly slightly mad, but only in the sense of that’s where you get the most striking visions, in that area close to madness. He’s filled the world with some sublime music" - Damon Albarn.

"That is how he lived – with his eyes on the immensity, his head always in the immensity and not wanting to bother with the niceties, necessarily" - Bill Callahan.

"Most people who have been massive pop stars spend the rest of their life trying to recapture that, but he didn’t want that at all. He was the quintessential artist, and chased what he heard in what were probably his nightmares" - Neil Hannon, The Divine Comedy

"One of the most intensely original visionaries to ever have lived" - Seb Rochford, Polar Bear. Guardian...