Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
BRIAN ENOMost game music is based on loops effectively.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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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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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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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.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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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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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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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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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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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 don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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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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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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