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  • Brian Eno Quote - What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
  • Brian Eno Quote - What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
  • Brian Eno Quote - What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
  • Brian Eno Quote - What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
  • Brian Eno Quote - What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
  • Brian Eno Quote - What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

Brian Eno

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this? Download This Image

    It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list. Download This Image

    Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf. Download This Image

    Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.

    I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.

    BRIAN ENO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

    Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.

    So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.

    BRIAN ENO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

    The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - 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.

    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.

    BRIAN ENO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

    The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me. Download This Image

    The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

    We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Eno Quote - 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.

    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.

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    Culture is everything you don’t have to do.

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