So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
BRIAN ENOThere are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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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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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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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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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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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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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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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 occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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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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Think inside the work – outside the work
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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