I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
BRIAN ENOI’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
BRIAN ENOBe the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
BRIAN ENOLyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
BRIAN ENOEvery 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.
BRIAN ENOWhen you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
BRIAN ENOWhen I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
BRIAN ENOOne often makes music to supplement one’s world.
BRIAN ENOOne of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
BRIAN ENOA 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.
BRIAN ENOOne of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
BRIAN ENOSometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
BRIAN ENOI despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
BRIAN ENOI wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
BRIAN ENOPeople who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
BRIAN ENOWhen people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
BRIAN ENOThe 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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