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.
BRIAN ENOQuite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
More Brian Eno Quotes
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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Everybody is entertained to death.
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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.
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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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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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American television really is pathetic.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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