Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
BRIAN ENOLook closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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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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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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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