Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
BRIAN ENOEditing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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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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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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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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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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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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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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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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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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