One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
BRIAN ENOI can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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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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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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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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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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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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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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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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