I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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 wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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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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In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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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 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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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I believe in singing.
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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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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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