Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
BRIAN ENOI wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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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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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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