If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
BRIAN ENOIf I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
BRIAN ENOWhat 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.
BRIAN ENOI suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
BRIAN ENOI prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENOBe the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
BRIAN ENOThe most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
BRIAN ENOLyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
BRIAN ENOWhen 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.
BRIAN ENOHuman development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
BRIAN ENOThe seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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.
BRIAN ENOA 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.
BRIAN ENOWhat 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.
BRIAN ENOStop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
BRIAN ENOI got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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