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.
BRIAN ENOThe vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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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 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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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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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.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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The 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.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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