Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENOOf course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
BRIAN ENOIf something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
BRIAN ENONot many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
BRIAN ENOOne often makes music to supplement one’s world.
BRIAN ENOWhatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
BRIAN ENOThe thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
BRIAN ENOI see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
BRIAN ENOBeing completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
BRIAN ENOI wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
BRIAN ENOWhen you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
BRIAN ENOEmotion creates reality, reality demands action.
BRIAN ENOIn England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
BRIAN ENOIn the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
BRIAN ENOI don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
BRIAN ENOFor the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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