The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
BRIAN ENOSaying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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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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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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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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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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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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