Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
BRIAN ENOIn my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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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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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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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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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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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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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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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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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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