The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
BRIAN ENOThere’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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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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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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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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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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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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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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I believe in singing.
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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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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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