I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
BRIAN ENOOne of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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American television really is pathetic.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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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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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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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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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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Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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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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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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