Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
BRIAN ENOWhen you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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All 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.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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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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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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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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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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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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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 wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Law is always better than war.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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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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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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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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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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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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