But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
BRIAN ENOThe tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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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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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Law is always better than war.
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Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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