Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
BRIAN ENOGiven the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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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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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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