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.
BRIAN ENOAs soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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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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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’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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