People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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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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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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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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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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