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.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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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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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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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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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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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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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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