Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
BRIAN ENOOnce 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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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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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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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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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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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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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Think inside the work – outside the work
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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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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