I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
BRIAN ENOI’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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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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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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I often work by avoidance.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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I believe in singing.
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The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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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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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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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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