If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
BRIAN ENOThe 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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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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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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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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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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American television really is pathetic.
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There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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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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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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