I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
BRIAN ENOI don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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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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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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I often work by avoidance.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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