For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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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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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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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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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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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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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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.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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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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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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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