When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
BRIAN ENOI belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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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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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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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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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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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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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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