I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
BRIAN ENOA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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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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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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