If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
BRIAN ENOSomething I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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I often work by avoidance.
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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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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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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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I believe in singing.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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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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