The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
BRIAN ENOAvant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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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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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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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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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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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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American television really is pathetic.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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