What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
BRIAN ENOI hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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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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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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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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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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I believe in singing.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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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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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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