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.
BRIAN ENOA responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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 basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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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 idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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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 hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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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