In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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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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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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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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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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’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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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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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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