I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
BRIAN ENOAmbient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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 had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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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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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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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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