I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
BRIAN ENOIf you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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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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Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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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 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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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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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 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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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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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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