The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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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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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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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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It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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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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