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.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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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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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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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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I believe in singing.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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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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