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.
BRIAN ENOAll cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I often work by avoidance.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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People 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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