Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
BRIAN ENOMy lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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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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The 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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Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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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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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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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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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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