Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
BRIAN ENOThe texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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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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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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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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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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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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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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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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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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