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.
BRIAN ENOSometimes 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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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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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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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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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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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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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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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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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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There 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.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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