Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
BRIAN ENOFor instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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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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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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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.
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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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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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