The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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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 love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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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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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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