I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
BRIAN ENOIn fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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American television really is pathetic.
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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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We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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