The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
BRIAN ENOI 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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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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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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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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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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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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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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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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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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I 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.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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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 wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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