The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
BRIAN ENOIf I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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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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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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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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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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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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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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