I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
BRIAN ENOWhat 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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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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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
BRIAN ENO