Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
BRIAN ENOSometimes 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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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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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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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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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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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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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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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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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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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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