I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
BRIAN ENOYou 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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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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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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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 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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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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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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