Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
BRIAN ENOBut now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Law is always better than war.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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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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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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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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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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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’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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