Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
BRIAN ENOThe 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Law is always better than war.
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When 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.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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A 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.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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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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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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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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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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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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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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