The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
BRIAN ENOA 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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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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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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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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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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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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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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