At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
BRIAN ENOAt the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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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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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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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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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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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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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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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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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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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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