I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
BRIAN ENOThe 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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