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 ENOWhat 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.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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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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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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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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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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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.
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