Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
BRIAN ENOMy guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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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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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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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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I 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.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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