I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
BRIAN ENOThe vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I often work by avoidance.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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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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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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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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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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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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For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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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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