It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
BRIAN ENOThere’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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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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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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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