Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
BRIAN ENOI’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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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 thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Every 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.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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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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Everybody is entertained to death.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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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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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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