I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
BRIAN ENOI don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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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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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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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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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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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