If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
BRIAN ENOWhat matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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American television really is pathetic.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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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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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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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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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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