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?
BRIAN ENOThe basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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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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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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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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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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I believe in singing.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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