I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
BRIAN ENOHuman development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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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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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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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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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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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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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’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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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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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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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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