I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
BRIAN ENOThe most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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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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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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American television really is pathetic.
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