Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
BRIAN ENOI wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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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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I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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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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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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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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American television really is pathetic.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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