You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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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Avant-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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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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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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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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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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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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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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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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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.
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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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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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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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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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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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