For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
BRIAN ENOThe philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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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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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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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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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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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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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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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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