I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
BRIAN ENOAvant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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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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Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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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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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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