Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
BRIAN ENOPeople in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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