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.
BRIAN ENOI 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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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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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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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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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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