It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
BRIAN ENOThe 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers 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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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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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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I believe in singing.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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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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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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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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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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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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