Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
BRIAN ENOI’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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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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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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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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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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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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