The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
BRIAN ENOI hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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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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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.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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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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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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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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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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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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