Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
BRIAN ENOThe thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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A 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.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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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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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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The 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.
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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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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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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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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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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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