Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
BRIAN ENOI see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I believe in singing.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on 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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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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.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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