I often work by avoidance.
BRIAN ENOI hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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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 believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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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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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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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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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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My 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.
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But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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