In 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.
BRIAN ENOCulture is everything you don’t have to do.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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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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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Law is always better than war.
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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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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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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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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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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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