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.
BRIAN ENOEverything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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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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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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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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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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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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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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