The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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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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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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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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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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