People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
BRIAN ENOLyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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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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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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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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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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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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