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.
BRIAN ENOThe great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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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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Think inside the work – outside the work
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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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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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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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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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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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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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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