Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
BRIAN ENOCulture is everything you don’t have to do.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to 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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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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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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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I believe in singing.
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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 see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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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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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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